Higher dimensional geometry and the minimal model program 
(James McKernan, Santa Barbara)

We will introduce the basic ideas of the minimal model program.  We
will pick topics from the following, depending on the interest of the
participants.

 Birational geometry of surfaces, and the Kodaira-Enriques
 classification.

 Mori's bend and break argument. 

 Cone Theorem. 

 Toric minimal model program.  

 The minimal model program.  

 Existence and termination of flips.  
 
 Fano varieties and Mori fibre spaces.  

 Classification of Fanos, birational rigidity and log canonical thresholds.