Symposium in honor of C.H. Clemens : a weekend of algebraic geometry in celebration of Herb Clemens's 60th birthday, March 10-12, 2000, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah / Aaron Bertram, James A. Carlson, Holger Kley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clemens, C. Herbert (Charles Herbert), 1939-

Bertram, Aaron, 1962-

Carlson, James A., 1946-

Kley, Holger.

Series:

Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 312.

Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 312

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geometry, Algebraic.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [2002]

Contents:

Preface: Herb Clemens / Aaron Bertram, James A. Carlson, Holger Kley vii

Orthogonal complex hyperbolic arrangements / Daniel Allcock, James A. Carlson, Domingo Toledo 1

Sketches of KdV / Enrico Arbarello 9

Vector bundles on the cubic threefold / Arnaud Beauville 71

Using symmetry to count rational curves / Aaron Bertram 87

Exceptional groups and del Pezzo surfaces / Robert Friedman, John W. Morgan 101

The regulator map for a general curve / Mark Green, Phillip Griffiths 117

Versal deformations and superpotentials for rational curves in smooth threefolds / Sheldon Katz 129

The Nash conjecture for nonprojective threefolds / Janos Kollar 137

Bounds and Q-Gorenstein smoothings of smoothable stable log surfaces / Yongnam Lee 153

The integral of powers of a function / Madhav V. Nori 163

On semipositivity of sheaves of differential operators and the degree of a unipolar Q-Fano variety / Ziv Ran 177

Stringy geometry and topology of orbifolds / Yongbin Ruan 187

The Prym Torelli problem: an update and a reformulation as a question in birational geometry / R. Smith, R. Varley 235

On the punctual Hilbert scheme of a symplectic fourfold / Claire Voisin 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821821520

OCLC:

50554168