Introduction to the moduli of curves

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I will introduce the notion of moduli spaces of curves and specifically genus 0 curves. They are in general not compact, and we will discuss the most common way to compactify them. In particular, I will try to explain the construction of Mbar_{0,5}, together with how to classify the boundary, how it is related to a moduli space of tropical curves, and how to do intersection theory on this space.