Moduli Spaces in Tropical Geometry
Moduli Spaces in Tropical Geometry
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Melody Chan, Brown University
Part of the Horizons Lectures Series
In-Person and Online Talk
I will give a hopefully accessible introduction to some work on tropical moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties. I will report on joint work with Madeline Brandt, Juliette Bruce, Margarida Melo, Gwyneth Moreland, and Corey Wolfe, in which we find new rational cohomology classes in the moduli space A_g of abelian varieties using tropical techniques. And I will try to touch on a new point of view on this topic, namely that of differential forms on tropical moduli spaces, following the work of Francis Brown.