School of Mathematics

Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for University of Cyprus' Nikolaos Tziolas

Nikolaos Tziolas from the University of Cyprus has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship in order to spend six months in the School collaborating with Ivan Cheltsov on algebraic varieties which are geometric shapes defined by algebraic equations. As part of his visit Nikos will give a series of Leverhulme lectures on "Algebraic surfaces in positive characteristic".