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Future directions lectures: Valuation, finite generation, and K-stability May 15, 2019 (10:00 AM PDT - 11:00 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Chenyang Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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We will discuss the recent progress on K-stability problems of Fano varieties, as well as their local analogues on singularities. This study brings new insight from differential geometry into algebraic geometry. As a result, it leads to many new questions in birational geometry, including a finite generation problem in a more general context on valuations.

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