Marco Andreatta, On Fano manifolds

Abstract: Fano manifolds are special projective varieties, discovered
and studied long ago by the italian mathematician Gino Fano, which in
recent type, thank to their many important features, have become
central blocks in different aspect of geometry.  This happened in
particular in the so called Minimal Model Program or Mori theory.  I
will present some recent results on Fano manifolds in the frame of
Mori theory, either connected to a long standing conjecture of
S. Mukai or to classification problems.