WORKSHOP ON FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS (September 9-11)
(Provisional schedule)


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Tuesday,  September 9 -- Palazzo  Castelletto, Aula Dini
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10.30-11.30: Alexandru Dimca (Nice)
"Characteristic varieties and logarithmic differential 1-forms"

11.30 -12: Coffe break

12.00 - 13.00: Oliver Baues (Karlsruhe)
"Virtually abelian Kähler and projective groups"



15.30 - 16.30: Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami)
"Homological Mirror Symmetry and braid factorizations: an approach"

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00-18.00: Keiji Oguiso (Keio)
"Groups of bimeromorphic automorphisms of compact hyperkaehler manifolds"


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Wednesday, September 10 -- Palazzo  Castelletto, Aula Dini
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10.30 -11.30 Mario Salvetti (Pisa)
"The Morse complex of a line arrangement"
(joint work with Giovanni Gaiffi)

11.30-12.00: Coffee break

12.00-13.00:
Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht)
"Fundamental groups of some moduli spaces that appear as quotients of braidlike groups"


15.30-16.30: Fritz Grunewald (Duesseldorf)
 "Quotients of products of curves and their fundamental groups"
(joint work with Ingrid Bauer- Fabrizio Catanese - Roberto Pignatelli)

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00 -18.00: Eckart Viehweg (Essen)
"Variation of Hodge structures of weight one and  uniformization of subschemes of $\sA_g$"


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Thursday, September 11  -- Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

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10.30-11.30: Alex Lubotzky (Jerusalem)
"Counting arithmetic groups and arithmetic surfaces"

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.00:  Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)
(to be confirmed)


15.30 - 16.30: Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth)
"Local fundamental groups of complex surfaces (an extension of Mumford's theorem)"

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

17.00-18.00: Thomas Delzant (Strasbourg)
"Cohomological constraints on Kaehler groups"