Discription

The lectures will be an introdution to different aspects of singularities of algebraic varieties motivated by open problems such as the monodromy conjecture, the Nash problem, the Zariski multiplicity conjecture, the Arc-Floer conjecture.

Prerequisite:

algebraic geometry (varieties, schemes, sheaves, cohomology)

Target Audience:

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students

Teaching Language:

English

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About the speaker

Nero Budur's research area is algebraic geometry. He is a professor at KU Leuven, mathematics department. He is also a visiting professor at YMSC, Tsinghua University (from May 21 to June 27, 2024 ), and an external scientific member of BCAM Bilbao.

Speaker website:

www.kuleuven.be/wis/algebra/budur