Seminar series
Date
Mon, 23 Jan 2017
Time
14:15 -
15:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Frances Kirwan
Organisation
Oxford
The construction of the moduli spaces of stable curves of fixed genus is one of the classical applications of Mumford's geometric invariant theory (GIT). Here a projective curve is stable if it has only nodes as singularities and its automorphism group is finite. Methods from non-reductive GIT allow us to classify the singularities of unstable curves in such a way that we can construct moduli spaces of unstable curves of fixed singularity type.