ROB-AG Conference

Date

October 28-30, 2026

Location

Stony Brook University and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Welcome to ROB-AG, a conference on Recent Outcomes in Birational and complex Algebraic Geometry!

This conference is motivated by the extraordinary progress made in the past few decades in our understanding of Hodge theory, singularities, syzygies, and rationality/irrationality, areas of algebraic geometry that have been influenced by the work of Rob Lazarsfeld.

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Wednesday, October 28:

• 11:00-12:00 Mihnea Popa (Harvard University)
• Lunch
• 2:30-3:30 Aaron Bertram (University of Utah)
• 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
• 4:00-5:00 Lawrence Ein (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• 6:00 Banquet

Thursday, October 29:

• 9:30-10:30 Olivier Martin (IMPA)
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:00 Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan)
• Lunch
• 1:15-2:15 Daniel Erman (University of Hawai'i)
• 2:30-3:30 Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
• Celebrating John Pardon (link)*
• 3:30 Presentation of Scholarship
• 5:00 A Celebration of Excellence
• 6:00 Reception

*Note: All registered conference participants are automatically registered for this separate event.

Friday, October 30:

• 9:30-10:30 Giulia Saccà (Columbia University)
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
• 11:00-12:00 Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)

Additional event that may be of interest -- Math, Physics, and AI: 200 Years Later (running 1:30-5:15 on Friday)

Wednesday, October 28:

• Morning: 8:00am and 8:30am departures from Danfords
• Evening: 8:15pm and 8:45pm departures from SCGP

Thursday, October 29:

• Morning: 8:00am and 8:30am departures from Danfords
• Evening: 5:15pm and 6:30pm departures from SCGP

Friday, October 30:

• Morning: 8:00am and 8:30am departures from Danfords
• [no return shuttles to Danfords]

Nathan Chen (IMPA)
Sam Grushevsky (Stony Brook)
Radu Laza (Stony Brook)
Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan)
Mihnea Popa (Harvard)
Christian Schnell (Stony Brook)