Tautological ring of moduli spaces of curves

Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 12:00
427 Thackeray Hall

Abstract or Additional Information

The intersection theory in the tautological ring of moduli spaces of curves has many applications with Mathematical physics. There are many recent progress on Faber's conjecture on the structure of tautological rings. We will present several techniques to produce tautological relations, including Brill-Noether, moduli of stable quotients and Witten's r-spin theory.