18 – 24 May 2026

Summer school and workshop

Foliations and Birational Geometry

The program will start with a Summer school, consisting of 4 lecture series, of 4 lectures each. It will start on Monday, in the morning, and end on Friday, at noon. This will be followed by a workshop, starting Friday afternoon and ending on Sunday at noon.

Summer school lecturers:

• André Belotto da Silva (Université Paris Cité)
• Paolo Cascini (Imperial College London)
• Stéphane Druel (CNRS – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
• Jorge Vitório Pereira (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)

Workshop Speakers:

• Stefano Filipazzi (Duke University)
• Jihao Liu (Peking University)
• James McKernan (UC San Diego)
• Wenhao Ou (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science)
• Mihai Păun (Universität Bayreuth)
• Quentin Posva (Heinrich Heine Universität)
• Calum Spicer (King’s College London)
• Roberto Svaldi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• Stefania Vassiliadis (King’s College London)
• Lingyao Xie (UC San Diego)

Registration

If you are interested in attending the program, please fill out this registration form. The deadline for requesting funding is March 1. We expect to make the funding decisions by mid-March.

Arrival and Lodging:

The easiest way to get to Ann Arbor from the Detroit Airport (DTW) is by Taxi, Uber, or Lyft. Another possibility is by taking the Michigan Flyer.

The participants will be staying at the AC Hotel Ann Arbor Downtown.