Title: Combinatorially minimal Mori dream surfaces of general type

Speaker: 이경석 (포항공과대학교)

Abstract: The study of minimal surfaces of general type has a long and beautiful history. However, they are still very mysterious objects and we do not know how to understand them systematically. In this talk, I will discuss how to use ideas of birational geometry to understand certain surfaces of general type. This talk is based on a joint work with JongHae Keum.