School (and Workshop) on

“The Geometry of Special Varieties”

Povo, Trento, Sept. 10-15, 2007

School’s Timetable

Monday, Sept. 10

13:00-14:00 Registration

14:00-15:30 Ciro CILIBERTO: “Degenerations and applications, I”

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Francesco RUSSO: “Geometry of special varieties, I”

Tuesday, Sept. 11

09:00-10:30 Ciro CILIBERTO: “Degenerations and applications, II”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Francesco RUSSO: “Geometry of special varieties, II”

12:45 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Ciro CILIBERTO: “Degenerations and applications, III”

Wednesday, Sept. 12

09:00-10:30 Francesco RUSSO: “Geometry of special varieties, III”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Ciro CILIBERTO: “Degenerations and applications, IV”

12:45 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Francesco RUSSO: “Geometry of special varieties, IV”

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 CILIBERTO/RUSSO: Exercises

Thursday, Sept. 13

09:00-10:30 Ciro CILIBERTO: “Degenerations and applications, V”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Francesco RUSSO: “Geometry of special varieties, V”

12:45 Lunch

14:30-16:00 CILIBERTO/RUSSO: Exercises

Workshop’s Timetable

	Friday, 14/9	Saturday, 15/9
9:00-9:50	ANDREATTA	CHIANTINI
10:00-10:30	NOMA	POLIZZI
10:30-11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00-11:50	IONESCU	DE POI
		BOCCI
12:00-12:50	MELLA	CATANESE
13:00	Lunch	Lunch
15:00-15:50	LANTERI
16:00-16:50	RANESTAD
17:00-17:30	Coffee break
17:30-18:00	BRAMBILLA
18:00-18:30	IACONO
20:30	Social dinner

Friday, Sept. 14

09:00-09:50 Marco ANDREATTA (Trento): “On Fano manifolds”

10:00-10:30 Atsushi NOMA (Yokohama): “Hypersurfaces cutting out a projective variety”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:50 Paltin IONESCU (Bucharest): “On manifolds covered by lines”

12:00-12:50 Massimiliano MELLA (Ferrara): “Cremona group and projective geometry”

13:00 Lunch

15:00-15:50 Antonio LANTERI (Milano): “Inflectional loci of scrolls”

16:00-16:50 Kristian RANESTAD (Oslo): “The algebraic degree in semidefinite programming and

varieties of symmetric matrices”

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

17:30-18:00 Chiara BRAMBILLA (Firenze): “Secant varieties and polynomial interpolation”

18:00-18:30 Donatella IACONO (SISSA Trieste): “Differential graded Lie algebras and deformations

of holomorphic maps”

20:30 Social dinner

Saturday, Sept. 15

09:00-09:50 Luca CHIANTINI (Siena): “Groups of points and the representation of hypersurfaces”

10:00-10:30 Francesco POLIZZI (Calabria): “The classification of surfaces with p_g=q=1 isogenous to

a product of curves”

10:30-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-11:20 Pietro DE POI (Trieste): “On quadratic normality for threefolds in $P^5$”

11:20-11:50 Cristiano BOCCI (Milano): “A tropical interpretation of m-dissimilarity maps”

12:00-12:50 Fabrizio CATANESE (Bayreuth): “Lines on the general point of a projective variety”

13:00 Lunch