| 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
Testa | Intersections 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 Totaro | Jumping 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 Cascini | A 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
Corti | Finite
generation of the canonical ring after Lazic |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Ronald van Luijk | Two-coverings of Jacobians |