April 24 - 26, 2006

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Outside Participants

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan

Mathematics Department

Airport shuttle number:

734-394-1665

(reserve 24h in advance)

Organizers
Renzo Cavalieri
Sam Payne

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We will spend a few days going through Ravi Vakil's survey paper "The Moduli Space of Curves and Gromov-Witten Theory" describing an approach to the study of the tautological ring of the moduli spaces of curves. We will start with some very basic introductory lectures to introduce the moduli space of curves and some of its partial compactifications as well as their tautological rings.

The first two talks will be accessible to graduate students in algebraic geometry and related fields.

The later talks will concentrate on three particular topics:

- Faber's conjectures;
- YP Lee's invariance conjectures;
- Graber's and Vakil's "star" theorem and applications to the above.

In addition to the lectures there will be more informal time for discussion, Q&A's, excercises, brainstorming, and development of possible projects for future study.

Some funding may be available for outside participants, through the department's NSF RTG grant. Contact Sam Payne or Renzo Cavalieri for information.

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