Speaker: Yaim Cooper (Princeton University)

Title: The geometry of stable quotient spaces

Abstract: Stable quotient spaces provide an alternative to stable maps for compactifying spaces of maps. In this talk I will discuss spaces of stable quotients which compactify the space of degree d maps of genus 1 curves to P^n. I will describe what is known about the geometry of these spaces. I will also discuss the relationship between these spaces and the corresponding spaces of stable maps from the perspective of the minimal model program.