Radu Laza Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Stony Brook University

Teaching

• Fall '11: Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Deformation theory (Topics in AG)
• Fall '10: Abstract Algebra, Algebra I
• Spring '10: Calculus I, Calculus A

Resume

• R. Friedman, R. Laza, Semi-algebraic horizontal subvarieties of Calabi-Yau type, preprint.
• R. Laza, Triangulations of the sphere and degenerations of K3 surfaces, preprint.
• S. Casalaina-Martin, D. Jensen, R. Laza, The geometry of the ball quotient model of the moduli space of genus four curves, to appear in "Compact moduli and vector bundles".
• R. Laza, GIT and moduli with a twist, to appear in "Handbook of Moduli".
• S. Casalaina-Martin, R. Laza, Simultaneous semi-stable reduction for curves with ADE singularities, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
• R. Laza, Moduli space of cubic fourfolds via the period map (the period map), Ann. of Math. 172 (2010), no. 1, 673--711.
• S. Casalaina-Martin, R. Laza, The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian, J. Reine Angew. Math. 633 (2009), 29--65.
• R. Laza, Moduli space of cubic fourfolds (the GIT compactification), J. Algebraic Geom. 18 (2009), 511--545.
• R. Laza, Deformations of singularities and variations of GIT quotients, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), no. 4, 2109--2161.
• C. Cadman, R. Laza, Counting the hyperplane sections with fixed invariants of a plane quintic, Adv. Geom. 8 (2008), no. 4, 531--549.
• R. Laza, G. Pfister, D. Popescu, Maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over the cone of an elliptic curve, J. Algebra 253 (2002), no. 2, 209--236.

My papers on arXiv (N.B. the links above might give more recent versions than arXiv). My Scholar profile.

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

• Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau varieties (Fields Institute, Fall 2013)
• AGP Seminar
• Student Algebraic Geometry seminar
• Workshop on Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 surfaces and Calabi-Yau threefolds (Toronto, Aug 16-25, 2011) [supported by NSF DMS-1100007]
• AGNES [supported by NSF DMS-1066154]

Travel

• 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)

My Students

• Patricio Gallardo
• Jun Wen
• Zheng Zhang
• Kenneth Ascher (undergraduate)

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