Geometry and Topology of Compactifications of Modular Varieties
Speaker:
Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Studies
Date and Time:
Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 9:30am to 10:30am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We will describe the construction, basic properties and applications of the Baily-Borel (Satake) compactification, the Borel-Serre and reductive Borel-Serre compactifications, and the toroidal compactifications.
