IMPANGA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Logo designed by M. Donten-Bury and PP

- is an Algebraic Geometry environment created by Piotr Pragacz (PP)
in 2000 at IM PAN (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences).
IMPANGA is mainly interested in Complex Algebraic Geometry.

                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                  A goal of IMPANGA is to spread out Algebraic Geometry of good taste among Polish mathematical community.

                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                         According to Hartshorne:
"To define algebraic geometry, we could say that it is the study of the solutions of systems
                                                                                                                                               of polynomial equations in an affine or projective n-space. In other words, it is the study of algebraic varieties.
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We organize bi-weekly  SEMINAR  IMPANGA, which usually takes place at IM PAN in Warsaw
(the word "seminar" is in Latin or Polish "seminarium", and means in Polish "szkolka roslin", i.e., "a school of plants" in English).
https://www.impan.pl/~impanga

From time to time, we work by research groups.

We also organize workshops and conferences.

    We publish IMPANGA LECTURE NOTES  and other books.


The last conference of Impanga that PP organized
with Ch. Eyral,
G. Kapustka, M. Kapustka and H. Tutaj-Gasińska was
IMPANGA 20 on Schubert varieties
poster
 


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SEMINAR IMPANGA  2020/21:

- the organizing committee consisted of:  Piotr Achinger, Christophe Eyral, Michał Kapustka and Piotr Pragacz-
Honorary Chairman
.

The dates, speakers, titles and abstracts of these online Zoom lectures are given in the page:

SEMINAR IMPANGA 2020/21


Slides from these lectures

 


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SEMINAR IMPANGA  2021/22:


- the organizing committee consists of:  Piotr Achinger, Jarosław Buczyński, Michał Kapustka and Piotr Pragacz-
Honorary Chairman.

The planned dates of the SEMINAR are:
Oct 8,  Oct 22,  Nov 5,  Nov 19,  Dec 3,  Dec 17,
Jan 14,  Jan 28,  Mar 4Mar 18,  Apr 8,  Apr 22,
May 6, May 20, Jun 3.

For details see:

https://www.impan.pl/~impanga
 

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Here you can find information about our SEMINAR IMPANGA in the past (attention: some links expired):

    
For information about the IMPANGA schools, research groups, sessions and summer seminars,
click here:
 

IMPANGA schools ...


The three largest events organized by IMPANGA so far were:

1.IMPANGA Summer School on Algebraic Geometry (2010)
poster
A piano concert for the participants of the School was performed by Pawel Wakarecy in the Kornik castle.
Pawel Wakarecy plays Chopin

2.Conference on Algebraic Geometry IMPANGA 15 (2015)
poster
    
The conference hosted 
Session "Pragacz 60"
Fulton's  letter
A piano concert for the participants of the Conference was performed by Maria Wojcik at Dzialynski Palace in Poznan
Maria Wojcik plays Chopin

There was also a satellite workshop  Projective geometry and syzygies 
poster

3.Conference IMPANGA 20 on Schubert varieties (2020-2021)
poster


Publications (IMPANGA LECTURE NOTES):

The lecture notes from the conference, schools and seminars of IMPANGA form the following Trilogy:






1.TOPICS IN COHOMOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ALGEBRAIC VARIETIES, Birkhauser 2005

2.ALGEBRAIC CYCLES, SHEAVES, SHTUKAS, AND MODULI, Birkhauser 2007
Errata

3.CONTRIBUTIONS TO ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, EMS Publishing House 2012
Errata


See also a publication about Hoene-Wroński:


   



HOENE-WROŃSKI: LIFE, MATHEMATICS, AND PHILOSOPHY, IM PAN 2008 (in Polish)
English abstracts




Here is an IMPANGA publication dedicated to the memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch:

   


SCHUBERT VARIETIES, EQUIVARIANT COHOMOLOGY AND CHARACTERISTIC CLASSES, EMS Publishing House 2018
(J. Buczyński, M. Michałek and E. Postinghel, editors)


Here you can download preliminary versions of the articles in the above volumes:

Lecture notes of IMPANGA 2002-04

Lecture notes of IMPANGA 2005-07

Lecture notes of IMPANGA 2007

Lecture notes of IMPANGA 2010-11


Here you can find 5 articles which discuss what IMPANGA did.

  See also "Ten years of IMPANGA", Wiad. Matem. 47(1)(2011), 45-54 (in Polish),

  and "20 years of IMPANGA", NEWSLETTER of IM PAN 14 (2021), 18-19 (by Ch. Eyral).



Department of Algebra and Algebraic Geometry of IM PAN in
the last academic year 2019/20 when PP was its head:


Piotr Achinger, Aleksandra Borówka, Jarosław Buczyński, Maciej Dołęga,
Boulous El Hilany, Christophe Eyral, Michał Kapustka, Benoit Guerville-Balle,
Hanieh Keneshlou, Marcin Lara, Michal Marcinkowski, Mateusz
Michałek (on leave), Karol Palka, PP, Filip Rupniewski,  Masha Vlasenko,
Alexander Youcis.
  

Varia:

Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927-2012)   was the first foreign speaker at the IMPANGA Seminar and
a good friend to IMPANGA. The attached text appeared in the Proceedings of IMPANGA15
Conference.

PP



Alexander Grothendieck (1928 - 2014)

Alexander Grothendieck  passed away on November 13 in the hospital of Saint-Girons (French
Department Ariège) not far from Lasserre, the village where he lived from the early 1990's .

Grothendieck was an extremally important inspiration for us in IMPANGA. In 2004, we dedicated to
him a session
at IM PAN :

Hommage a Grothendieck

with participation of many algebraic geometers, topologists and number theorists.
The first volume of the Impanga Lecture Notes "Topics in cohomological studies of algebraic varieties"
(Birkhauser 2005) was dedicated to Grothendieck. You can download the introductory article
"Notes on life
and work of Alexander Grothendieck" (or its Polish version from Wiad. Mat. 40)  from
my web page. An ameliorated English version appeared in
American Mathematical Monthly 13(9) 2006.

PP


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Kinosaki in 2014

Since 40 years Japanese algebraic geometers organize symposia at Kinosaki Onsen (2.5 hour by train
from Kyoto).
The first Kinosaki symposia were organized by T. Miyata and M. Nagata, and S. Mori
(very young at that time) was one of the first speakers. In 2014, the symposium took place on 20-24 October
and was organized by K. Oguiso, H. Ohashi and K. Mitsui. Among the speakers were: K. Yoshioka, B. Fu,
 K. Kawatami, M. Wandel, K. Hashimoto, M. Chen, J. Chen,  Ch. Liedtke, Y. Matsumoto, A. Ito, K. Ueda,
A. Bondal and others. The sessions were chaired by: S. Mukai, S. Mori, Y. Kawamata, T. Saito, K. Saito
 and others. The history of Kinosaki symposia was recalled by T. Oda, M. Miyanishi and T.  Shioda. 

After lectures and onsen (Japanese bath), the participants meet in the hall of  the ryokan Tsutaya Inn
(a Japanese-type hotel with tatami) and discuss various matters with sake
until midnight.
Very fruitful discussions indeed...

PP


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Alain Lascoux (1944-2013)   was a good friend to IMPANGA. The attached text is a
memorial writing  for Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 71 "Schubert Calculus - Osaka 2012".

PP


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IMPA, Rio

 
In Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro, there is a research institute in maths called IMPA (please note that this name is close to IMPANGA ;-) )
They started around 1952. IMPA has a large building (it contains 3 auditoria , several convenient lecture rooms and many
offices for working mathematicians). This year, in April, May and June, IMPA hosted a trimester on algebraic geometry. Algebraic
geometry is not a leading domain at IMPA (this role is played by dynamical systems with A. Avila - a 2014 Fields medalist) ,
but the direction of IMPA understands a leading role of algebraic geometry in contemporary mathematics. Consult the web page:

Trimester of Algebraic Geometry

 

E.g.  the lecturers of this first week of June included: O. Debarre, R. Lazarsfeld and B. Totaro.
PP participated there at two conferences in the 2nd half of May: "Higher dimensional algebraic geometry"
and "Rational points", and also at the "Algebra Seminar" directed by Eduardo Esteves, who was the main
organizer of the trimester.

If you will have an occasion to visit IMPA - do it without hesitation (also coffee there is super!). Near IMPA
there is "Jardim Botanico", an ideal place for meditations and work on maths.

PP

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Jerzy Browkin (1934-2015)

When I was a student at Warsaw University (1975-76), Jerzy Browkin teached
me the theory of elliptic curves. He also introduced me to Milnor's K-theory.
Jerzy Browkin was often a guest at the IMPANGA seminar, and especially when
we worked on some arithmetic subject. In 2007, he gave a beautiful lecture on
zeros of the Riemann zeta function. This lecture is written and available (see above
in "Lectures notes of IMPANGA 2007"). His mathematical fatherland was
the arithmetic geometry enviroment in Moscow: Shafarevich, Manin, Parshin
"who was able to present in a few sentences a several pages long proof"...
He also evaluated highly Tate, about whom he reported: "there is such
a mathematician who publishes rarely but is often invited with a lecture
to ICM Congresses."


PP



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Mariusz Koras (1951 - 2017)

I met Mariusz in 1975 when I was a student at Warsaw University whose
department of mathematics was situated at two floors of the Palace of
Culture.
Mariusz superwised the exercises to Jerzy Browkin's lectures
on elliptic curves.
In fact, he did all the work, reading with us several
 papers and completing all the details.
I came from Torun and was a
beginner in algebraic geometry, so I liked his style that helped me smoothly
enter the topic. We also knew at that time that Mariusz was a leading
Polish climber, and that he did with Jan Wolf great things on
Kazalnica
. Later, Mariusz jointed IMPANGA in 2001-02.
He helped  me greatly with the IMPANGA seminar during
this time, so I was able to go to Paris to work with Alain Lascoux.
Later he coorganized with Karol Palka an IMPANGA school on
affine geometry (Banach Center in Warsaw, June 12-14, 2012).
We hoped so much to have him at IMPANGA for the academic year
2017/18  but unfortunately this is not possible . . .


PP


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Here are two quota from ICM 2018, which I find important:

“I am very grateful to CNRS. Langlands program is far from my
first mathematical subject and I would never have been able to devote
myself to it without the great freedom given by CNRS to researchers
to accomplish their work” said Vincent Lafforgue in his acknowledgements.


What Masaki Kashiwara said in his interwiev during
ICM in Rio is worth repeating:
"You have to forget important things to learn new things."

PP



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See you at Impanga!





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