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 by 1 pm.

Summer school lecturers:

• Paolo Cascini (Imperial College London)
• Stéphane Druel (CNRS – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
• Jorge Vitório Pereira (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)
• Jarosław Włodarczyk (Purdue University)

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 (Université de Neuchâtel)
• Calum Spicer (King’s College London)
• Stefania Vassiliadis (King’s College London)
• Lingyao Xie (UC San Diego)

Titles and abstracts

Location

All talks will be in 1544 NUB (North University Building). The coffee breaks will be held in the Math Department atrium, in the East Hall. Here is a central campus map and here is an interactive Ann Arbor map.

Social event:

On Saturday evening, there will be a conference dinner in the Math Department atrium, staring at 6:00 pm.

Schedule

School:

Monday, May 18

9:30-10:30   Jorge Pereira I

11:00-12:00 Stéphane Druel I

2:00-3:00 Paolo Cascini I

3:00-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Jarek Włodarczyk I

Tuesday, May 19

9:30-10:30 Stéphane Druel II

11:00-12:00 Paolo Cascini II

2:00-3:00 Jarek Włodarczyk II

3:00-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Jorge Pereira II

Wednesday, May 20

9:30-10:30 Paolo Cascini III

11:00-12:00 Jorge Pereira III

Free afternoon

Thursday, May 21

9:30-10:30 Jarek Włodarczyk III

11:00-12:00 Paolo Cascini IV

2:00-3:00 Stéphane Druel III

3:00-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Jorge Pereira IV

Friday, May 22

9:30-10:30 Stéphane Druel IV

11:00-12:00 Jarek Włodarczyk IV

Workshop:

Friday, May 22

2:00-3:00 James McKernan

3:00-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Wenhao Ou

5:30-6:30 Mihai Păun

Saturday, May 23

9:30-10:30 Quentin Posva

11:00-12:00 Stefania Vassiliadis

2:00-3:00 Stefano Filipazzi

3:00-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Linyao Xie

6:00-8:00 Conference dinner

Sunday, May 24

9:30-10:30 Jihao Liu

11:00-12:00 Calum Spicer

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.