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Title:
Birational geometry and algebraic cycles

Speaker:
Burt Totaro

Abstract:
A fundamental problem of algebraic geometry is to determine which algebraic varieties are rational, that is, isomorphic to projective space after removing lower-dimensional subvarieties from both sides. We discuss the history of the problem. Some dramatic progress in the past 5 years uses a new tool in this context: the Chow group of algebraic cycles.

Link:
https://mathtube.org/lecture/video/birational-geometry-and-algebraic-cycles

Workshop:
Mathtube- PIMS-UBC Math Department Colloquium