WORKSHOP ON ABELIAN VARIETIES

Gerard van der Geer and Ben Moonen
University of Amsterdam
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

E-mail:    geer (GvdG)  or   bmoonen (BM), both at the domain   science . uva . nl

We are organizing a 3-day Workshop on Abelian Varieties, to be held at the University of Amsterdam, May 29-30-31, 2006.

The Workshop concludes a Spring School on Abelian Varieties that is held in May 2006. (Follow the link for further information.)

PROGRAM:

MONDAY, MAY 29

10:00-10:30 coffee and tea
10:30-11:30 Bas Edixhoven: How to compute the field of definition of a torsion point.
11:45-12:45 Sam Grushevsky: A_6 is of general type (joint work with Lehavi)

lunch

14:30-15:30 Frans Oort: Monodromy and irreducibility of leaves, I
15:30-16:00 coffee and tea
16:00-17:00 Olivier Debarre: On coverings of simple abelian varieties

TUESDAY, MAY 30

10:00-11:00 Robin de Jong: Theta functions and the Weierstrass divisor of a Riemann surface
11:00-11:30 coffee and tea
11:30-12:30 T. Katsura: Automorphism group of abelian surfaces and the unirationality of generalized Kummer surfaces in positive characteristic

lunch

14:00-15:00 Ching-Li Chai: Monodromy and irreducibility of leaves, II
15:00-15:30 coffee and tea
15:30-16:30 Arnaud Beauville: Algebraic cycles on Jacobian varieties.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31

9:30-10:30 Gerard van der Geer: The Schottky Problem
10:30-11:00 coffee and tea
11:00-12:00 Adrian Iovita: TBA

lunch

13:30-14:30 Sam Grushevsky: TBA
14:45-15:45 Brian Conrad: Higher-level canonical subgroups in families of abelian varieties

All the lectures will take place in "De Oudemanhuispoort", a university building in the center of Amsterdam. The address is: Oudezijds Achterburgwal 211-225, 1012 DL Amsterdam. The room is: C 217 (third floor). It is walking distance from Central Station (10 minutes), Waterlooplein (subway station; 5 minutes). There are also numerous streetcars (4, 9, 16, 24, 25) from the Central Station that pass through Rokin. Get out at the Rokin. For a map, click here.

Participants are supposed to arrange their own accomodation. We recommend that you do so as soon as possible, as the end of May is usually a busy period (May 25 is Ascension Day, June 4 is Whit Sunday) and hotels will be booked full early.
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