Special Lecture: When do varieties map to each other?

Name: Special Lecture: When do varieties map to each other?
Start: 2023-09-12T15:15:00-04:00
End: 2023-09-12T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

ANNOUNCEMENTS, OTHER MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT EVENTS

When: September 12, 2023

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Mihnea Popa - Harvard University

Algebraic geometers study algebraic varieties, and the maps between them. A basic question is whether there can be any non-constant maps between two (smooth, projective) varieties of different type. I will explain some basic and some more sophisticated obstructions to the existence of such maps.