Speaker
Gavril Farkas, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Abstract
I will discuss how novel ideas from non-abelian Brill-Noether theory can be used to prove that the moduli space of genus 16 is uniruled. For the much studied question of determining the Kodaira dimension of M_g, this case has long been understood to be crucial in order to make further progress.
This is joint work with Verra.