We determine all anticanonically embedded quasi smooth log del Pezzo surfaces in weighted projective 3-spaces. Many of these admit a Kähler-Einstein metric and most of them do not have tigers.

In this note we discuss some recent and ongoing joint work with Thalia Jeffres concerning the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics on compact Kähler manifolds which have a prescribed incomplete singularity along a smooth divisor $D$. We shall begin with a general discussion of the problem, and give a rough outline of the “classical” proof of existence in the smooth case, due to Yau and Aubin, where no singularities are prescribed. Following this is a discussion of the geometry of the conical or edge...

Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold and $\Delta$ be a $ℝ$-divisor with simple normal crossing support and coefficients between $1/2$ and $1$. Assuming that $K_X+\Delta$ is ample, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a negatively curved Kahler-Einstein metric on $X\setminus \mathrm{Supp}\left(\Delta \right)$ having mixed Poincaré and cone singularities according to the coefficients of $\Delta$. As an application we prove a vanishing theorem for certain holomorphic tensor fields attached to the pair $(X,\Delta )$.