Rubber maps and double ramification cycles

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 5:00am to 6:00am
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Steffen Marcus
Speaker affiliation: 
The College of New Jersey
Event description: 

The double ramification cycle on the moduli space of marked curves of compact type parameterizes marked, stable, compact type curves admitting a finite degree covering of the projective line with prescribed ramification over zero and infinity. In this talk I will discuss a comparison theorem over the compact type locus between double ramification cycles and classes pushed forward from spaces of rubber stable maps to the moduli space of curves. Recent generalizations of this whole situation will also be discussed.

Special note: 
Non-standard meeting time!