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Title: Varieties of general type with small volume
Speaker: Burt Totaro
Speaker Info: UCLA
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In trying to classify algebraic varieties, the fundamental invariant is the "volume", generalizing the genus of a curve. In higher dimensions, the volume need not be an integer, and so it is a fascinating challenge to construct varieties with the smallest possible positive volume. These can be considered the varieties that are hardest to find. (Joint work with Louis Esser and Chengxi Wang.)