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Back to Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Spring 2023

Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Jan 31, 2023

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 323


Quentin Posva

University of Utah

Title

On the moduli space of stable surfaces in positive characteristic

Abstract

Stable varieties are higher dimensional analogues of stable curves. In characteristic zero, it is known that their moduli space is a projective variety. However, this is not known yet in positive characteristic. In this talk, I will first survey recent results about stable surfaces in positive characteristic due to Arvidsson, Bernasconi, Patakfalvi and myself. Then I will sketch an ongoing approach to the properness of the corresponding moduli functor.

Algebraic Geometry

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