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This past year, I was on the road at conferences and summer schools quite a bit. Last October, David Swinarski and I gave a lecture series on applications of GIT to birational geometry of moduli spaces of curves to the "Summer" School of the Algorithmic methods in algebra and number theory Schwerpunkt. In May, Joe Harris and I gave a series of talkson Moduli spaces of curves and their birational geometry at the NSF sponsored VIGRE Summer School in Athens Georgia. Also, in May, I visited the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Columbia to give a colloquium. In July, I was again in Korea, this time in Busan, as co-organizer, with Ji-hun Park and David Hyeon of POSTECH, of an enlarged Third Workshop on Moduli and Birational Geometry. In December, I will be visiting the American Institute of Mathematics to take part in a workshop on Log minimal model programs for moduli spaces.
My current main project is editing, jointly with Gavril Farkas at Humboldt University, a Handbook of Moduli, currently in final revision at International Press, and that will be published late this year. This has noe become a very large survey (3 volumes totalling almost 1800 pages) whose primary goal is to provide mathematicians who know the language of algebraic geometry with guides to the dialects of specific moduli problems, that will make the primary literature accessible to them.
I will be continuing ongoing research with David Swinarski on applying symbolic computational methods to get infromation on moduli spaces of stable curves and stability of low degree Hilbert points of such curves. You can find a more discussion, and get our papers, at my publications and research interests pages.
This year, I will be teaching two new courses that fulfill eloquentia perfecta requirements of the new Fordham core. In the fall, I am again giving an EP3 course in Scientific Communication open to all science majors in which students learn the LaTeX document preparation system and a new topic in their subject, and then create an expository paper and a classroom mini-lecture explaining their work. Next spring, jointly with Abe Smith, I will teach and EP4 seminar Practicum in Mathematical Ethics that we hope will enable our students to make the transition from undergraduate to professional standards of rigor and accuracy in their work, and that will serve as a capstone to the mathematics major.
My coordinates page lists various ways of contacting me and my schedule page gives details of when and where I teach, hold office hours and serve on University committees.
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