Program of the workshop
Friday, October 10th, 2008
9.30--10.30 Duco van Straten:
Introduction (How should one think about deformation theory?)
10.30--11.00 Coffee break
11.00--12.00 Klaus Altmann: Introduction to the deformation
theory of toric
singularities
13.30--14.30 Klaus Altmann: The smoothings of certain toric
singularities described by quivers
14.30--15.00 Coffee break
15.00--16.00 Jan Stevens:
Versal deformation of cyclic quotient singularities
16.00--16.30 Coffee break
16.30--17.30 Jan Christophersen:
Deformations of Stanley-Reisner surfaces
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
9.30--10.30 Monique Lejeune-Jalabert:
Integral closure of ideals and equisingularity
10.30--11.00 Coffee break
11.00--12.00 Mark Spivakovsky: Equisingular deformations of
sandwiched surface singularities
13.30--14.30 Theo de Jong & Duco van Straten:
Deformation of minimal and sandwiched singularities I.
14.30--15.00 Coffee break
15.00--16.00 Theo de Jong & Duco van Straten:
Deformation of minimal and sandwiched singularities II.
16.00--16.30 Coffee break
16.30--17.30 Jan Stevens:
Open problems, interesting questions regarding deformations
of surface singularities
19.00 -- CONFERENCE DINNER
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
9.30--10.30 Helmut A. Hamm:
Equisingularity of curves on surfaces
10.30--11.00 Coffee break
11.00--12.00 Michael Zaidenberg:
Deformations of acyclic surfaces and of C^*-actions