Effective divisors on moduli spaces of curves

Seminar: 
Algebraic Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Dawei Chen
Speaker affiliation: 
Boston College
Event description: 

The cone of effective divisors contains important information about the birational geometry of a variety. In this talk I will give an introduction to this subject, with a focus on the case when the ambient varieties are moduli spaces of curves.