Oct 3 Friday Afternoon

  3:30 - 4:30 Joel Fine Université Libre de Bruxelles
    The symplectic geometry of Einstein 4-manifolds
  5:00 - 6:00 Jianxun Hu Sun Yat-Sen University
    Uniruled symplectic orbifold

Oct 4 Saturday Morning

  9:30 - 10:30 Claire Voisin École Polytechnique
    Curve classes on Calabi-Yau threefolds and rationally connected manifolds
  11:00 - 12:00 Weiyi Zhang University of Warwick
    Symplectic blowing down in dimension six

Oct 4 Saturday Afternoon

  2:00 - 3:00 Jason Starr Stony Brook University
    Geometry of Spaces of Rational Curves on Fano Manifolds
  3:30 - 4:30 Weiwei Wu University of Montreal, CRM-ISM
    Finite subgroups of symplectic plane Cremona group
  5:00 - 6:00 Mark McLean Stony Brook University
    Minimal Discrepancy of Isolated Singularities and Reeb Orbits
  6:30 - Conference Dinner 2nd Floor Atrium

Oct 5 Sunday Morning

  9:00 - 10:00 Paolo Cascini Imperial College
    On the Chern numbers of a smooth threefold
  10:15 - 11:15 Gabriele La Nave University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    TBA
  11:30 - 12:30 Zhiyu Tian Caltech
    Birational invariance of symplectic rational connectedness in special cases


All the lectures are in 4096 East Hall. There will be coffee breaks between talks.


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