Schedule

Monday 31st August
09:00-09:30 Registration in the School of Mathematics
09:30-10:30 Per Salberger Rational points of bounded height and volumes of line bundles
11:00-12:00 Ivan Cheltsov Exceptional quotient singularities
13:30-14:30 Martin Bright Local-global principles: geometry and arithmetic
15:00-16:00 Gregory Sankaran Locally symmetric varieties and quadratic forms
Tuesday 1st September
09:30-10:30 Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Weak approximation on cubic and K3 surfaces
11:00-12:00 Damiano TestaIntersections of two quadrics in P^5
13:30-14:30 Emmanuel Peyre Freedom and goodness
15:00-16:00 Stephan Elsenhans Arithmetic of cubic surfaces - some experimental results
Wednesday 2nd September
09:30-10:30 Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène Brauer-Manin obstruction to integral points and sums of three cubes
11:00-12:00 Burt TotaroJumping of the nef cone for Fano varieties
13:30-14:30 Yuri Tschinkel K3 surfaces and their higher-dimensional analogs
15:00-16:00 Olivier Wittenberg Existence of zero-cycles on fibrations over number fields
18:30 Conference dinner at Goldney Hall Orangery
Thursday 3rd September
09:30-10:30 Alexei Skorobogatov E_8 and universal torsors over del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1
11:00-12:00 Paolo CasciniA lifting theorem in the minimal model program
13:30-14:30 Shepherd-Barron Exceptional loci in A_g
15:00-16:00 Gavin Brown Birational fibrations on Fano 4-folds
Friday 4th September
09:30-10:30 David Harari Poitou-Tate exact sequences and arithmetic of algebraic groups
11:00-12:00 Alessio CortiFinite generation of the canonical ring after Lazic
13:30-14:30 Ronald van LuijkTwo-coverings of Jacobians