The Fall 2010 workshop took place at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Connecticut on September 24-26.

Organizers: Arend Bayer and Milena Hering.

This conference was supported by the NSF (Grant DMS-0963782) and the University of Connecticut (Department of Mathematics and Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).


The conference attracted about 120 participants.

Speakers:

• Jan Denef (Leuven)
• Paul Hacking (UMass Amherst)
• Stefan Kebekus (Freiburg)
• Allen Knutson (Cornell)
• János Kollár (Princeton)
• Robert Lazarsfeld (Michigan)
• Davesh Maulik (MIT)
• Yu-jong Tzeng (Harvard)

Lecture notes:

Jan Denef	Geometric proof of Ax-Kochen's theorem on p-adic forms
Paul Hacking	Vector bundles associated to degenerations of surfaces
Stefan Kebekus	Pretalk
	Extension properties of differential forms on singular spaces, and applications to moduli
Allen Knutson	Frobenius splittings and degeneration
János Kollár	Pretalk
	A local version of the Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem
Robert Lazarsfeld	Pretalk
	Positivity of cycles on abelian varieties
Davesh Maulik	Relative Behrend functions
Yu-jong Tzeng	Universal Formulas for Counting Nodal Curves on Surfaces

You can still find the abstracts of the talks.

Professional Development Event: Bill Fulton (Michigan) gave a talk on communicating mathematics.

Poster session: We had a poster session with 5 poster presenters.

Poster: Please have a look at our beautiful poster.

Pretalks: There will be three pretalks, exclusively for graduate students, with a focus on birational geometry.

About AGNES

AGNES is a new series of weekend workshops in algebraic geometry. One of our goals is to introduce graduate students to a broad spectrum of current research in algebraic geometry. AGNES is held biannually at the participating universities in the Northeast.

Scientific Committee:
Dan Abramovich (Brown), Joe Harris (Harvard), Aise Johan de Jong (Columbia),
Mikhail Kapranov (Yale), János Kollár (Princeton), James McKernan (MIT)

Organizing committee:
Arend Bayer (UConn), Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook), Paul Hacking (UMass Amherst),
Milena Hering (UConn), Jason Starr (Stony Brook), Jenia Tevelev (UMass Amherst).