Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Jenia Tevelev
Massachusetts Amherst
Boundary of moduli spaces of surfaces of general type
Abstract: It is well-known that moduli of surfaces of general type can be compactified
by stable semi log canonical surfaces of Kollár and Shepherd-Barron.
However, lack of explicit examples makes the global structure of these
moduli
spaces a bit mysterious. I will report on work in progress (joint with
Giancarlo Urzua
and Paul Hacking), where we investigate the boundary in case of surfaces
with $p_g = q = 0$.
Wednesday April 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM in SEO 1227