Special Lecture: From triangles to algebraic geometry

Name: Special Lecture: From triangles to algebraic geometry
Start: 2023-04-28T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-28T14:45:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

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When: April 28, 2023

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Dori Bejleri - Harvard University

The classification of shapes is one of the central pursuits of geometry. In this talk, we will begin with the problem of classifying triangles and see how it leads naturally to the notion of moduli spaces in algebraic geometry.