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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Friday, Nov 18, 2022

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 323


Philip Engel

University of Georgia

Title

Elliptic surfaces and a Torelli theorem Note the unusual date!

Abstract

Elliptic surfaces fibering over an elliptic curve with 12 singular fibers form a ten-dimensional moduli space. Their middle cohomology has a K3 type Hodge structure endowing the moduli space with a period map into a ten-dimensional arithmetic quotient. I will discuss a proof that this period map is dominant (like moduli of K3 surfaces) but that the degree of the period map exceeds one (unlike moduli of K3 surfaces). This is joint work with F. Greer and A. Ward.

Algebraic Geometry

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