Moduli of Coverings Branched Along Hypersurfaces

Explore a mathematical seminar presentation that delves into the geometry of moduli spaces of coverings branched along hypersurfaces, examining their representation as hypersurfaces in weighted projective space. Learn about the construction of these moduli spaces as non-reductive GIT quotients, gaining insights into their topology and geometry. Discover the connections between birational geometry and moduli of K-polystable log del Pezzo surfaces in this hour-long talk delivered by Dr. Dominic Bunnett from Technische Universität Berlin at the Isaac Newton Institute, as part of the New Equivariant Methods in Algebraic and Differential Geometry program.