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Paul Hacking, Assistant Professor
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Office LGRT 1235H
Phone (413) 545-6017
Fax (413) 545-1801
Email hacking <at> math.umass.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
Courses  
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Math 235.4 (MWF 11:15 - 12:05 pm, GOES 51)
Education  
PhDCambridge University, 2001
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry
My research focuses on moduli spaces of complex surfaces and related topics, including birational geometry, tropical geometry, mirror symmetry, derived categories, and noncommutative geometry.
Selected Publications
P. Hacking and Y. Prokhorov, Smoothable del Pezzo surfaces with quotient singularities, 24pp., to appear in Compositio Mathematica.
P. Hacking, S. Keel, and J. Tevelev, Stable pair, tropical, and log canonical compactifications of moduli spaces of del Pezzo surfaces, Invent. Math. 178 (2009), no. 1, 173-227.
D. Chan, P. Hacking, and C. Ingalls, Canonical singularities of orders over surfaces, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 98 (2009), no. 1, 83-115.
P. Hacking, The moduli space of curves is rigid, Algebra Number Theory 2 (2008), no. 7, 809-818.
P. Hacking, Homology of tropical varieties, Collect. Math. 59 (2008), no. 3, 263-273.
P. Hacking, S. Keel, and J. Tevelev, Compactification of the moduli space of hyperplane arrangements, J. Algebraic Geom. 15 (2006), 657-680.
P. Hacking, Compact moduli of plane curves, Duke Math. J. 124 (2004), no. 2, 213-257.
P. Hacking, Semistable divisorial contractions, J. Algebra 278 (2004), no. 1, 173-186.



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