Invitation 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 14:30 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.