Organizers
Dan Abramovich (Brown), Izzet Coskun (UIC), Angela Gibney (Georgia), Gregory G. Smith (Queen’s), and Mike Stillman (Cornell).
Invited Speakers
Valery Alexeev (Georgia),
Aaron Bertram (Utah),
Ana Maria Castravet (Northeastern),
Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State),
Melody Chan (Brown),
Emily Clader (SFSU),
Maksym Fedorchuk (Boston College),
Noah Giansiracusa (Georgia),
Jack Huizenga (Penn State),
Dave Jensen (Kentucky),
Anna Kazanova (Tennessee),
Paolo Lella (Trento),
Hannah Markwig (Tübingen),
Margarida Melo (Roma Tre),
Han-Bom Moon (Fordham),
Dhruv Ranganathan (MIT),
Orsola Tommasi (Chalmers),
Filippo Viviani (Roma Tre).
Schedule
| Monday, 5 December 2016 | |
| 08:30—09:20 | Registration |
| 09:20—09:30 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:30—10:30 | Hyperelliptic loci and Weierstrass points by Renzo Cavalieri |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | Combinatorics and moduli of tropical linear series on curves by Margarida Melo |
| 12:00—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:30 | Linear Systems on General Curves of Fixed Gonality by Dave Jensen |
| 15:30—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—17:00 | Topology of the tropical moduli spaces of curves by Melody Chan |
| 17:00— | Reception |
| Tuesday, 6 December 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:30 | The derived category of moduli spaces of rational curves by Ana-Maria Castravet |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | Local and global equations of the Hilbert scheme by Paolo Lella |
| 12:00—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:30 | Conformal block vector bundles on moduli space of stable curves by Anna Kazanova |
| 15:30—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—17:00 | Weak Brill-Noether for rational surfaces by Jack Huizenga |
| Wednesday, 7 December 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:30 | Classical invariant theory and birational geometry of moduli spaces by Han-Bom Moon |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | Double ramification cycles and tautological relations by Emily Clader |
| 12:00—14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00— | Skating Excursion |
| Thursday, 8 December 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:30 | Moduli of rational and elliptic curves in toric varieties by Dhruv Ranganathan |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | The cohomology of the Hilbert scheme and compactified Jacobians by Filippo Viviani |
| 12:00—14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30—15:30 | Invariant theory of Artinian Gorenstein algebras by Maksym Fedorchuk |
| 15:30—16:00 | Break |
| 16:00—17:00 | Volumes of surface pairs of general type by Valery Alexeev |
| Friday, 9 December 2016 | |
| 09:30—10:30 | Modifications, faithful tropicalization and moduli spaces by Hannah Markwig |
| 10:30—11:00 | Break |
| 11:00—12:00 | On the stable cohomology for toroidal compactifications of Ag by Orsola Tommasi |
| 12:00—13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30—14:30 | Recent developments in tropical scheme theory by Noah Giansiracusa |
| 14:30—15:00 | Break |
| 15:00—16:00 | Enumerating finite Quot Schemes on Curves and Surfaces by Aaron Bertram |
Registration
Please register on the Fields Institute website by first selecting “Registration Form” and then selecting the “Workshop on Combinatorial Moduli Spaces and Intersection Theory”. There is a registration fee of $25CAD. If you wish to apply for financial support (e.g. travel and lodging), then please fill out the “Funding Application Form” in addition to the “Registration Form” on the webpage above. The deadline for applications for financial support was Friday, 9 September 2016.
Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry 