A Celebration of Algebraic Geometry: In Honor of Joe Harris' 60th Birthday, August 25-28, 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Clay Mathematics Proceedings)

About the Author Brendan Hassett, Rice University, Houston, TX, USAJames McKernan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Jason Starr, Stony Brook University, NY, USA Ravi Vakil, Stanford University, CA, USA Product Description This volume resulted from the conference A Celebration of Algebraic Geometry, which was held at Harvard University from August 25-28, 2011, in honour of Joe Harris' 60th birthday. Harris is famous around the world for his lively textbooks and enthusiastic teaching, as well as for his seminal research contributions. The articles are written in this spirit: clear, original, engaging, enlivened by examples, and accessible to young mathematicians. The articles in this volume focus on the moduli space of curves and more general varieties, commutative algebra, invariant theory, enumerative geometry both classical and modern, rationally connected and Fano varieties, Hodge theory and abelian varieties, and Calabi-Yau and hyperkahler manifolds. Taken together, they present a comprehensive view of the long frontier of current knowledge in algebraic geometry.