TAGS SCHEDULE
F RIDAY 27 A PRIL
4:00–5:00 PM Second Maxson lecture by Joe Harris, Harvard University
“Interpolation Problems II” in Blocker 117
5:00–7:00 PM Dinner and poster session
7:00–8:00 PM Lecture for graduate students by Sean Keel, University of Texas
“Mirror Symmetry Made Easy”
S ATURDAY 28 A PRIL
9:00–10:00 Harm Derksen, University of Michigan “Quiver Representations in Schubert Calculus”
10:30–11:30 Josephine Yu, Georgia Tech “Computing Tropical Resultant”
11:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:30 Abhinav Kumar, MIT “Rational Elliptic Surfaces with High Mordell-Weil Rank and
Multiplicative Bad Fibers”
2:30–4:00 Break and poster session
4:00–5:00 Brian Lehman, Rice University “Introduction to the Minimal Model Program”
Banquet: Chef Cao’s
S UNDAY 29 A PRIL
9:30–10:30 Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah “Rationality in Families of Threefolds”
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 David Ben Zvi, University of Texas “Geometric Theory of Harish Chandra
Characters”
Rooms: Friday night: Blocker 627 / 628
Saturday and Sunday: Blocker 166 for lectures
Blocker 148 (Break room), but Blocker 628 for the poster session.
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