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Aktuelle Algebraische Geometrie

Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Ulrich Hommel, Ph.D.

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The Dutch Intercity Seminar on Moduli, which dates back to the early

eighties, was an initiative of G. van der Geer, F. Oort and C. Peters.

Through the years it became a focal point of Dutch mathematics and

it gained some fame, also outside Holland, as an active biweekly

research seminar. The tradition continues up to today.

The present volume, with contributions of R. Dijkgraaf, C. Faber,

G. van der Geer, R. Hain, E. Looijenga, and F. Oort, originates

from the seminar held in 1995--96. Some of the articles here were

discussed, in preliminary form, in the seminar; others are completely

new. Two introductory papers, on moduli of abelian varieties and

on moduli of curves, accompany the articles.

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- Gerard van der Geer / Frans Oort: Moduli of Abelian Varieties: A Short Introduction and Survey.
- Carel Faber/ Eduard Looijenga: Remarks on Moduli of Curves.
- Robbert Dijkgraaf: Fields, Strings, Matrices and Symmetric Products.
- Carel Faber: A Conjectural Description of the Tautological Ring of the Moduli Space of Curves.
- Gerard van der Geer: Cycles on the Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties.
- Richard Hain: Locally Symmetric Families of Curves and Jacobians.
- Eduard Looijenga: Correspondences between Moduli Spaces of Curves.
- Frans Oort: A Stratification of a Moduli Space of Polarized Abelian Varieties in Positive Characteristic.

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Prof. Dr. Eduard Looijenga ist Mathematiker an der Universität Utrecht, Niederlande.

Dr. Carel Faber ist jetzt am Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn tätig.

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