Justin Lacini, On Log del Pezzo Surfaces in Positive Characteristic

A log del Pezzo surface is a normal surface with only Kawamata log terminal singularities and anti-ample canonical class. Over the complex numbers, Keel and McKernan have classified all but a bounded family of log del Pezzo surfaces of Picard number one. In this talk we will extend their classification to positive characteristic. In particular, we will prove that for p>3 every log del Pezzo surface of Picard number one admits a log resolution that lifts to characteristic zero over a smooth base. As a consequence, we will see that Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing holds in this setting. Finally, we will conclude with some counterexamples in characteristic two, three and five.