Title    name Intensive Lectures by Miles Reid     Title Intensive Lectures 9   Speaker Miles Reid (University of Warwick / Sogang University)   Date 2011-04-23   Host   Place SGU   File     Abstract : Surface cyclic quotient singularities as examples of surface singularities and their resolution. More general surface singularities, especially the Du Val singularities and applications. Generalisation to higher dimensional orbifolds and toric varieties. Generalities on graded rings and the construction of Proj. Gorenstein rings in small codimension and unprojection. Toric varieties as deformations of tents. Diptych varieties and their application to 3-fold Mori theory. Construction of projective algebraic varieties by graded rings methods and key varieties.

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