University of Michigan
Department of Mathematics
 Topics in Algebraic Geometry
Fall 2007
Mondays 3-4pm, 2866 East Hall


This semester, we will be looking at moduli of surfaces, with a particular emphasis on surfaces of general type (at least to start).

Schedule of Talks

Date Speaker Topic Abstract
Monday September 17th Christian Lundkvist Moduli spaces of curves Click here
Monday September 24th Radu Laza An overview of compactification of Moduli Spaces of surfaces of general type.
Monday October 1st Not meeting Not meeting
Monday October 8th Kevin Tucker On singularities and relations with moduli of surfaces of general type.
Monday October 15th Not meeting Fall Break Have Fun
Monday October 22nd Kevin Tucker On the singularities that are important to us, part II.
Monday October 29th Karl Schwede Boundedness of our Moduli problem We've now talked about the classes of singularities we want let "join the party". I will talk about boundedness for this new moduli problem. See the papers of Alexeev and Karu below.
Monday November 5th Karl Schwede Boundedness of our Moduli problem part 2
Monday November 12th Renzo Cavalieri On an example of Hacking
Monday November 19th Not meeting Early thanksgiving break!
Monday November 26th Amanda Knecht The Naruki Cross Ratio Variety as a moduli space of cubic surfaces See the paper of Naruki below.
Monday December 3rd Organizational meeting for next semester Join us as we decide on a topic and a time. Some suggested topics include:
Rational curves with a goal of understanding Graber-Harris-Starr
Log geometry
D-modules in positive characteristic
GIT

Related Papers

For more information, or to volunteer to give a talk, contact Karl Schwede or Radu Laza.