Speaker:
Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Date:
Wed, 19/11/2014 - 2:00pm
Venue:
Red Centre M032, UNSW
Abstract:
By using normal forms and invariants, several descriptions of the moduli space of cubic surfaces have been worked out in the 19th century. We give an overview of this. Finally we will apply these results to construct surfaces with prescribed geometric or arithmetic properties.