*主持人：张通 教授

*讲座内容简介：
We will report a method initiated by Barja-Pardini-Stoppino to prove Severi type inequalities. By combining calculations of cohomological rank function, we can apply these inequalities to classify irregular varieties with small birational invariants.

*主讲人简介：
江智教授现任职于复旦大学上海数学中心，他的研究方向为代数几何。