Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Tabes Bridges
UIC
Blowing Up and Blowing Down: Some Thoughts on Curves, Moduli, and Birational Geometry
Abstract: I will begin by briefly recalling the basic objects associated with the moduli spaces of curves, then present an overview of some things that are currently known about the birational geometry and the topology of these spaces. To give a feel for the study of these spaces, I will conclude with some intersection-theoretic calculations on $\overline{M}_g$.
Wednesday March 18, 2015 at 3:00 PM in SEO 712