REMINDER: Invitation to the ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Shigefumi Mori on "The Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties" on 30 November at 14:30

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_*I*__*nvitation to the ICTP Colloquium *_

Dear All,

*ICTP is pleased to announce the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium on "The 
Birational Classification of Algebraic Varieties" by Professor Shigefumi 
Mori,  Emeritus, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, 
Japan. The talk will take place on **Friday 30 November 2018 at 
1**4**:30 hrs**, in the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP. *

*BIOSKETCH*: Shigefumi Mori attended Kyoto University from where he 
received his B.A. in 1973, M.A. in 1975, and doctorate in 1978. He was 
visiting professor at Harvard during 1977-1980, at the Institute for 
Advanced Studies from 1981-82, at Columbia University from 1985-87, and 
the University of Utah for several periods. Mori research focuses on the 
birational geometry of algebraic varieties. One of his main results is 
the 3-dimensional flip theorem, which established the 3-dimensional 
birational classification theory based on the work of M. Reid, X. 
Benveniste, Y. Kawamata, V. Shokurov, J. Kollár, Y. Miyaoka and others. 
He is currently interested in a fine classification of certain threefold 
structures, including flips, divisorial contractions, and Q-conic 
bundles. Mori was awarded a Fields Medal at the 1990 International 
Congress in Kyoto in Japan. Mori is also President of the International 
Mathematical Union (IMU) until the end of 2018.

More information is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8742/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at:  ictp.it/livestream

Light refreshments will follow.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

With best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP


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