Moduli spaces of weighted stable elliptic surfaces

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Kenneth Ascher
Speaker affiliation: 
Brown University
Event description: 

I will discuss recent work (with Dori Bejleri) towards constructing various modular compactifications of spaces of elliptic surface pairs analogous to Hassett’s moduli spaces of weighted stable curves.