Dawei Chen : Extremal effective divisors on moduli spaces of curves

Posted by Izzet Coskun , part of the Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Nov. 6, 2013, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

The cone of effective divisors plays a central role in the birational geometry of a variety X. In this talk I will give an introduction to this subject and report some recent progress (joint with Izzet Coskun) when X is the moduli space of pointed genus one curves.