Program

Day

Time

Content

Wednesday, June 26th

13:30 – 13:45

Registration

13:45 – 14:00

Opening speech

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture 1: The projective plane P^2 and the blow-up of P^2 at one point.

Divisors, linear systems and intersection form on them.

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:30

Lecture 2: Examples of rational surfaces: Hirzebruch-Segre surfaces and elementary transformations between them.

Thursday, June 27th

09:00 – 10:00

Lecture 3:Examples of rational surfaces: del Pezzo surfaces

10:00 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 11:30

Lecture 4:Examples of plane Cremona maps: quadratic ones.

11:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture 5:Base locus of a plane Cremona map: infinitely near, proximate and satellite base points.

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:30

Lecture 6: Equations of conditions. Noether's inequality. Hudson's test.

Friday, June 28th

09:00 – 10:00

Lecture 7:Examples of plane Cremona maps: de Jonquières' ones. Decomposition of a de Jonquières map into quadratic ones.

10:00 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 11:30

Lecture 8: A classical proof of Noether-Castelnuovo Theorem

11:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Lecture 9: A modern approach: the Sarkisov programme.

15:00 – 15:30

Break

15:30 – 16:30

Lecture 10: Cremona equivalence of plane curves.