Top Global Course Special Lectures by Prof. Valery Alexeev

Top Global Course Special Lectures by Prof. Valery Alexeev (Kyoto University / University of Georgia) will take place as follows:

Course Title
Top Global Course Special Lectures 1
Date & Time
April 3 - 11, 2017
Monday, April 3, 15:00-17:30
Wednesday, April 5, 15:00-17:30
Friday, April 7, 15:00-17:30
Tuesday, April 11, 10:00-12:30
Venue
127 Conference room, Faculty of Science Bldg. #3, Kyoto University
Title
Compact moduli spaces of surfaces: functorial and combinatorial
Abstract
The lectures will go over several concrete examples of geometric compactifications of moduli spaces of surfaces and surface pairs.
The topics will include, in roughly this order:
  • Dimension 1 case. Weighted curves. Losev-Manin spaces.
  • Toric methods. Moduli of abelian surfaces and their covers.
  • Matroidal methods. Weighted hyperplane arrangements and their covers.
  • Higher-dimensional analogs of Losev-Manin spaces.
  • Losev-Manin spaces for other Lie types.
  • Compactifications of moduli of rational elliptic surfaces and of K3 surfaces.
Language
English
Poster (PDF)