22 jun 2015 - 10 jul 2015
Catania, Italy
Pragmatic 2015
Catania, Italy
June 22th - July 10th, 2015
(Arrival date June 21th; departure date July 11th)
Web page:
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~pragmatic/docs/Pragmatic2015-1Ann.html
Lecturers:
Prof. Alessandro Chiodo - Université de Paris 6
Prof. Filippo Viviani - Università Roma Tre
Collaborators:
Giulio Codogni - Università Roma Tre
Jérémy Guéré - Université de Paris 6
Topic: Moduli of Curves and Line Bundles
The goal of the school is to introduce the participants to the theory of moduli of curves with particular attention to problems related to the enumerative geometry of curves and line bundles. This subject has been at the center of new research areas with many accessible open problems, particularly for participants who are willing to work in quantum cohomology and-or birational geometry of moduli spaces. There will be two introductory courses.
Spin Curves and Mirror Symmetry (Prof. A. Chiodo)
We will start from explicit examples of a phenomenon which is apparently completely unrelated to the subject of the event: pairs of Calabi-Yau varieties (X,Y) of dimension three which are dual in the sense of mirror symmetry:
hp,q(X;C) = h3-p,q(Y; C). We will formulate a more general statement and a proof which will allow us to present a new approach (Fan-Jarvis-Ruan) to the quantum cohomology of Calabi-Yau varieties by means of r-spin curves. These are algebraic curves of genus g equipped with a line bundle L, whose rth power is isomorphic to the canonical bundle: Lr ≅ ω. The geometry of the moduli spaces of r-spin curves is still largely unexplored and recent techniques give access to many open problems. These can be intrinsically related to the geometry of the moduli space or oriented towards quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry, where a construction in terms of matrix factorisations (Polishchuk-Vaintrob) has recently allowed a new approach to the problem of computing virtual intersection numbers.
Moduli Spaces of Curves and Abelian Varieties (Prof. F. Viviani)
The moduli space Mg of smooth and projective curves of genus g and the moduli space Ag of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension g are certainly among the most studied moduli spaces. The Torelli morphism from Mg to Ag, sending a curve into its Jacobian, establish a deep bridge between the two moduli spaces.
The moduli spaces Mg and Ag admit compactifications compatible with the Torelli morphism. On one hand, Deligne-Mumford introduced a modular compactification of Mg parametrizing stable curves. On the other hand, Ash-Mumford-Rapoport-Tai introduced several toroidal compactifications of Ag, depending on the choice of a polyhedral decomposition of the cone of positive definite quadratic forms. More recently Alexeev (and subsequently Nakamura and Olsson) introduced modular compactifications of Ag, parametrizing stable semiabelic pairs. The Torelli morphism extends from the Deligne-Mumford compactification of Mg to some of the toroidal compactifications of Ag and also to the Alexeev modular compactification, by sending a stable curve into its canonical compactified Jacobian in degree g-1.
More recently, tropical analogues of the moduli spaces Mg and Ag have been introduced, as well as a tropical analogue of the Torelli morphism. These tropical moduli spaces can be seen as canonical skeleta of the non-archimedean Berkovich analytifications of the classical moduli spaces.
The aim of this course is to give an introduction to the beautiful geometry underlying the moduli spacesMg and Ag and the Torelli morphism, starting from the classical case and then moving to the compactifications and tropicalizations. Moreover, we will touch upon related topics, like: the birational geometry of Mg and Ag, the tautological rings of Mg and Ag, compactified Jacobians of singular curves, the compactified universal Jacobian and its birational geometry.
Local committee:
Alfio Ragusa
Francesco Russo
Giuseppe Zappalà
People who wish to be considered either for participation and-or for financial support should fill out the enclosed application form, which should be sent to one of the following address:
E-mail: pragmatic@dmi.unict.it<mailto:zappalag@dmi.unict.it>
The deadline for applications is March 15th, 2015. The Committee of Pragmatic will decide about financial supports and admissions within March 31th, 2015. Interested people who need more information about Pragmatic can contact any member of the local committee.
The Organization of Pragmatic 2015 will cover the boarding and lodging expenses of the participants which are not supported by their institutions, but not the travel expenses.
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