Rahul Pandharipande : Cohomology of moduli space

Posted by , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At

Sept. 4, 2009, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

I will discuss old and new points of view on the cohomology of the basic moduli spaces in algebraic geometry: Grassmannians, map spaces, and curves. The talk will start with ideas of Schubert, Mumford, and Faber and end with some new results.