Abstract

I will explain mirror symmetry for Fano varieties, and an approach to the classification of Fano varieties based on mirror symmetry.

Speaker

Professor Alessio Corti holds a Chair in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. His main areas of interest lie in algebraic geometry, particularly higher dimesional birational geometry, minimal model theory, Fano varieties.

Professor Alessio Corti's personal web page can be found at

http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~acorti