講師:Professor Evgeny Shinder (University of Sheffield/U. Tokyo)
I will explain the following topics: motivic invariants of birational maps and their relation to Sarkisov links decomposition in the Minimal Model Program for surfaces, and to canonical (atomic) semiorthogonal decompositions of derived categories.
Prerequisites: definition of algebraic varieties and birational maps, for later talks: coherent sheaves and their cohomology, ideally but not necessarily - derived categories; I will recall the necessary concepts as we go.