BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vance Blankers (Northeastern University) DTSTART:20210916T163000Z DTEND:20210916T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T053553Z UID:SFUQNTAG/39 DESCRIPTION:Title: Alternative compactifications of the moduli space of curves\nby Vanc e Blankers (Northeastern University) as part of SFU NT-AG seminar\n\n\nAbs tract\nThe moduli space of curves is an important object in modern algebra ic geometry\, both interesting in its own right and serving as a test spac e for broader geometric programs. These often require the space to be comp act\, which leads to a variety of choices for compactification\, the most well-known of which is the Deligne-Mumford-Knudsen compactification by sta ble curves\, originally introduced in 1969. Since then\, several alternati ve compactifications have been constructed and studied\, and in 2013 David Smyth used a combinatorial framework to make progress towards classifying all "sufficiently nice" compactifications. In this talk\, I'll discuss so me of the most well-studied compactifications\, as well as two new compact ifications\, which together classify the Gorenstein compactifications in g enus 0 and genus 1.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/SFUQNTAG/39/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR