Birational algebraic geometry =
Subtitle: Nichi-Bei sūgaku Kenkyūjo : a conference on algebraic geometry in memory of Wei-Liang Chow (1911-1995), April 11-14, 1996, Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute, Johns Hopkins University
By: Yujiro Kawamata, Vyacheslav V. Shokurov, editors.
Contributors: Chow, Wei-Liang, 1911-1995.; Kawamata, Yujiro, 1952-; Shokurov, Vyacheslav V., 1950-
Series: Contemporary mathematics ;; 207; Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ;; v. 207.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society; Amer Mathematical Society
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Providence, RI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Geometry, Algebraic -- Congresses.
Other titles: Nichi-Bei sūgaku Kenkyūjo
Description: This book presents proceedings from the Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI) Conference on Birational Algebraic Geometry in Memory of Wei-Liang Chow, held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in April 1996. These proceedings bring to light the many directions in which birational algebraic geometry is headed. Featured are problems on special models, such as Fanos and their fibrations, adjunctions and subadjunction formuli, projectivity and projective embeddings, and more.

Some papers reflect the very frontiers of this rapidly developing area of mathematics. Therefore, in the cases, only directions are given without complete explanations or proofs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.