Giovanni Inchiostro (UW)
PDL C-38
Title pretalk: Moduli spaces and Kontsevich stable maps
Abstract pretalk: During this pretalk I will talk about moduli spaces, with a special emphasis on moduli spaces of Kontsevich-stable maps.
Title talk: Degenerations of twisted maps to algebraic stacks
Abstract talk: Assume that one has a family of nodal curves over the punctured disc 
, with a morphism 
to an algebraic stack 
with a projective good moduli space. I will explain how one can, up to replacing the punctured disc with a ramified cover of it, compactify this family to a family of nodal (twisted) curves over the whole disc 
, in a way such that the generic morphism extends to 
.
, with a morphism to an algebraic stack with a projective good moduli space. I will explain how one can, up to replacing the punctured disc with a ramified cover of it, compactify this family to a family of nodal (twisted) curves over the whole disc , in a way such that the generic morphism extends to .For example, in the case where 
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