Birational geometry of the intermediate Jacobian fibration

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 4:15pm
Location: 
LOM 214
Speaker: 
Giulia Saccà
Speaker affiliation: 
Columbia University
Event description: 

A few year ago with Laza and Voisin we constructed a hyperkähler compactification of the intermediate Jacobian fibration associated to a general cubic fourfold. In this talk I will first show how such a compactification J(X) exists for any smooth cubic fourfold X and then discuss how the birational geometry of the fibration J(X) is governed by any extra algebraic cohomology classes on J(X).