Christian Liedtke


Department of Mathematics
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall
Stanford, California 94305

telephone +1 (650) 723-6769
e-mail liedtke (at) math (dot) name of the university (dot) edu
office 383-TT


Seminar at Stanford University, Spring Term 2010

Lectures at Sogang University, October 19-22, 2009


Research interest

  • Algebraic surfaces (general type, K3)
  • Elliptic curves and fibrations
  • Torsors and fundamental groups
  • Geometry in positive characteristic

Talks, teaching etc.

Curriculum Vitae


Preprints -- on arXiv

  1. Algebraic Surfaces in Positive Characteristic (lecture notes),
    arxiv:0912.4291 (2009).
  2. (with Stavros Papadakis) Birational modifications of surfaces via unprojections,
    arXiv:0904.4204 (2009).
  3. The p-torsion subgroup scheme of an elliptic curve,
    arXiv:0904.1307 (2009).
  4. (with Stefan Schröer) The Néron model over the Igusa curves,
    arXiv:0810.0924 (2008).

Publications -- on MathSciNet

  1. Fundamental Groups of Galois Closures of Generic Projections,
    Trans. AMS 362, 2167-2188 (2010).
  2. A note on non-reduced Picard schemes,
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra 213, 737-741 (2009).
  3. Non-classical Godeaux Surfaces,
    Math. Ann. 343, 623-637 (2009).
  4. (with Matthias Schütt) Unirational Surfaces on the Noether Line,
    Pacific J. Math. 239, 343-356 (2009).
  5. Algebraic Surfaces of General Type with Small c12 in Positive Characteristic,
    Nagoya Math. J. 191, 111-134 (2008).
  6. Uniruled surfaces of general type,
    Math. Z. 259, 775-797 (2008).
  7. Natural central extensions of groups,
    Groups Geom. Dyn. 2, 245-261 (2008).
  8. On Fundamental Groups of Galois Closures of Generic Projections,
    Bonner Mathematische Schriften Nr. 367 (2004).
  9. Singular abelian covers of algebraic surfaces,
    manuscripta math. 112, 375-390 (2003).

Reviews written for MathSciNet


last modified: 12/21/2009