Special Lecture: When do varieties map to each other?

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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.