Dongsoo Shin, Deformations of Sandwiched Surface Singularities and the Minimal Model Program
B236-1 IBS, Korea, Republic ofSpeaker Dongsoo Shin Chungnam National U. (This is a part of Seminars on Algebraic Surfaces and Related Topics.) We investigate the correspondence between three theories of deformations of rational surface singularities: de Jong and van Straten's picture deformations, Kollár's P-resolutions, and Pinkham's smoothings of negative weights. We provide an explicit method for obtaining, …