Radu Laza Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Stony Brook University

Office: Math 4-121

Teaching

• Spring '13: Undergraduate seminar in Mathematics (MAT 402) - Topics in Algebra , Intro to Lie groups and Lie algebras (MAT 552)
• 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:

• On some Hermitian variations of Hodge structure of Calabi-Yau type with real multiplication (w. R. Friedman), to appear in Michigan Math. J.
• 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), to appear in Duke Math. J.
• Log canonical models and variation of GIT for genus four canonical curves (w. S. Casalaina-Martin and D. Jensen), to appear in J. Algebraic Geom.
• GIT and moduli with a twist, in "Handbook of Moduli" vol. 2, Adv. Lect. Math. 25 (2013), Int. Press, 259-297.
• Simultaneous semi-stable reduction for curves with ADE singularities (w. S. Casalaina-Martin), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 365 (2013), no. 5, 2271-2295.
• 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.
• 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.

Books edited:

• Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi-Yau Threefolds (w. M. Schuett and N. Yui), Fields Institute Communications, vol. 67, Springer 2013, (Proceedings of the 2011 Fields workshop on Calabi-Yau's and K3's).

My papers on arXiv. My Scholar profile.

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

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

Travel 2013

• New Trends in Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Surfaces, Luminy, March 2013
• Deformation and Moduli in Complex Geometry, KIAS (Seoul), March 2013
• Penn State (seminar talk), April 16
• Summer School on Compactifying Moduli Spaces, CRM (Barcelona), May 2013
• Recent Advances in Hodge Theory (Period domains, Algebraic cycles, and Arithmetic), Vancouver, June 2013.
• Development of Moduli theory, Kyoto, June 2013
• Fall 2013: Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau varieties, Fields Institute.

My Students

• Patricio Gallardo
• Zheng Zhang

Irina & Iuliana

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