Title: Moduli of curves through examples
Speaker: Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri
Speaker Info: Northwestern University
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I shall describe the moduli of curves of a fixed genus and it's compactification given by Deligne and Mumford, all through examples. Then I shall explicitly explain the case of rational curves for which the moduli space is a variety. If time permits I shall also describe the case of genus 2.Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010