Radu Laza Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Stony Brook University

Office: Math 4-121

Teaching

• Fall '12: Calculus with Applications (MAT 122), Algebra III (Commutative Algebra)
• Fall '11: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Deformation theory (Topics in AG)

Resume (Pdf Version)

Recent & Selected Publications:

• The KSBA compactification for the moduli space of degree two K3 pairs, preprint 2012.
• Semi-algebraic horizontal subvarieties of Calabi-Yau type (w. R. Friedman), preprint 2011.
• Log canonical models and variation of GIT for genus four canonical curves (w. S. Casalaina-Martin and D. Jensen), preprint 2012.
• The geometry of the ball quotient model of the moduli space of genus four curves (w. S. Casalaina-Martin and D. Jensen), in "Compact Moduli Spaces and Vector Bundles", Contemp. Math. 564 (2012), 107-136.
• GIT and moduli with a twist, to appear in "Handbook of Moduli".
• Simultaneous semi-stable reduction for curves with ADE singularities (w. S. Casalaina-Martin), to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
• Moduli space of cubic fourfolds via the period map, Ann. of Math. 172 (2010), no. 1, 673-711.
• Moduli space of cubic fourfolds (the GIT compactification), J. Algebraic Geom. 18 (2009), 511-545.
• The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian (w. S. Casalaina-Martin), J. Reine Angew. Math. 633 (2009), 29-65.
• Deformations of singularities and variations of GIT quotients, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), no. 4, 2109-2161.

My papers on arXiv. My Scholar profile.

My research is partially supported by NSF (DMS-0968968, DMS-1200875) and a Sloan Fellowship.

• Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau varieties (Fields Institute, Fall 2013)
• AGP Seminar
• Student Algebraic Geometry seminar
• AGNES

Travel 2012

• Arithmetic, Motives and Moduli spaces, Paris (Jan 9-13, 2012)
• Seminar Talks (Spring 2012): Stony Brook (Feb 15), Rice (Feb 21), Texas A&M (Mar 2)
• Komplexe Analysis, Oberwolfach (Sept 3-7, 2012)
• Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Hanover (Sept 10-14, 2012)
• Algebraic geometry, modular forms and applications to physics, Edinburgh (Nov 26-30, 2012)
• Log minimal model program for moduli spaces, AIM Workshop (Dec 10-14, 2012)

My Students

• Patricio Gallardo (PhD, 4th year)
• Zheng Zhang (PhD, 3rd year)
• Kenneth Ascher (undergraduate)
• Ren Yi (undergraduate)

Irina (more photos) & Iuliana

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