BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Michael Temkin (HUJI) DTSTART:20231005T233000Z DTEND:20231006T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260406T162030Z UID:agstanford/128 DESCRIPTION:Title: Distinguished Lecture: Filling a few holes in the classical resolutio n of singularities\nby Michael Temkin (HUJI) as part of Stanford algeb raic geometry seminar\n\nLecture held in TBA.\n\nAbstract\n"...in this fie ld\, almost everything is already discovered\, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." Philipp von Jolly in his recommendation to Max Planck not to go into physics.\n\nSince 2015 I am taking part in a lon g project (more precisely\, a series of projects) with Dan Abramovich and Jarek Wlodarczyk on resolution of singularities in characteristic zero -- a field which was (and sometimes still is) considered as accomplished up t o a few unimportant holes. To our surprise it turned out that there were ( and still are) quite a few fundamental things to discover in this classica l and thoroughly explored field\, and the new discoveries even provide a m ore conceptual view on what was known before we started our project. It is impossible to compress all results of this journey in one talk\, but I wi ll try to outline a unified view on most of our discoveries in these proje cts. If time permits in the end I will also say a couple of words about ou r new project in progress with Andre Belotto -- still in characteristic ze ro...\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/agstanford/128/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR