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Title: K-stability and moduli spaces of Fano varieties
Speaker: Yuchen Liu
Speaker Info: Yale
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Fano varieties are positively curved algebraic varieties which form one of the three building blocks in the classification. Unlike the case of negatively curved varieties, moduli spaces of Fano varieties (even smooth ones) can fail to be Hausdorff. K-stability was originally invented as an algebro-geometric notion characterizing the existence of K\"ahler-Einstein metrics on Fano varieties. Recently, people have found strong evidence toward constructing compact Hausdorff moduli spaces of Fano varieties using K-stability. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress in this approach, including an algebraic proof of the existence of Fano K-moduli spaces, and describing these moduli spaces explicitly. This talk is partly based on joint works with H. Blum and C. Xu.