The Summer school and conference on Rationality problems, Cremona groups and motivic invariants will take place on July 2-10, 2026 at the University of Sheffield.
The application for funding is currently closed.
You are welcome to register and attend the symposium if you have your own funding.
Summer school (2-4 July 2026)
Serge Cantat: Maximal subgroups in Cremona groups
Antoine Chambert-Loir: Burnside rings and birational invariants
John Ottem: Stable rationality and polyhedral subdivisions
Claire Voisin: Boundedness and unboundedness results for 0-cycles on Fano varieties
Symposium (6-10 July 2026)
- Christian Böhning
- Alessio Corti
- Cinzia Casagrande
- Yajnaseni Dutta
- Alexey Elagin
- Enrica Floris
- Cécile Gachet
- François Greer
- Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros
- Ludmil Katzarkov
- Hsueh-Yung Lin
- Jesus Martinez-Garcia
- Alex Perry
- Christian Urech
Information
The Summer school starts in the morning of July 2nd (Thursday) and ends on July 4th (Saturday) at 4:30 PM.
The conference starts in the morning of July 6th (Monday) and ends on July 10th (Friday) at 4:30 PM.
Organising committee
- Philip Engel (Chicago)
- Julia Schneider (Dijon)
- Evgeny Shinder (Sheffield)
contact: e.shinder@sheffield.ac.uk
This event is the first in the series of LMS-Sheffield Symposia that will run from 2026-2030 at the University of Sheffield and supported by EPSRC, the LMS, ICMS and INI.
The LMS-Sheffield Symposia continue the long-running series of LMS Symposia, which began in 1974 at the University of Durham, and were known as the LMS-EPSRC Durham Symposia until 2019. From 2020-2025, the LMS-Symposia were held at the University of Bath and known as the LMS-Bath Symposia.