Moduli of subcanonical points
CMSA Algebra Seminar
When: March 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Address:
20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Dawei Chen (Boston College)
Subcanonical points are special Weierstrass points on smooth algebraic curves whose semigroups are symmetric. In this talk, I will explain the rich geometry of the moduli space of subcanonical points, with a focus on its connected components, birational geometry, topology, and the deformation theory of related monomial singularities.
