Seminar series
Date
Tue, 05 Jun 2012
Time
15:45 -
16:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Frank Gounelas
Organisation
Oxford
This talk will be about various ways in which a variety can be "connected by higher genus curves", mimicking the notion of rational connectedness. At least in characteristic zero, the existence of a curve with a large deformation space of morphisms to a variety implies that the variety is in fact rationally connected. Time permitting I will discuss attempts to show this result in positive characteristic.