Title: On blowing up extremal Kähler manifolds

Time: May 11, 2012, Friday, 10:10-12:00am

Speaker: Alberto Della Vedova(Princeton University and BICMR)

Venue: Room 09 at Quan-Zhai(全斋), New location for BICMR, Peking University

Abstract: We will review a paper of G. Szekelyhidi on the existence of extremal Kähler metrics on the blow up of an extremal Kähler manifold at a bunch of points. We will recall relevant GIT facts and we will sketch the proof of the main results. We will also discuss some applications to the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture.