Jenia Tevelev Department of Mathematics and Statistics LGRT University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9305 Phone   (413) 545-2856 Email   tevelev at math.umass.edu Teaching (Fall 2009) Graduate Algebra 61I  Putnam Exam Seminar Office Hours   F/Th 1:30pm    Review Section for 611 Mo 4pm at 1336 My research is supported by Sloan Research Fellowship and by NSF grant DMS-0701191 Seminars that I coorganize:  AG/CA (F 2:50pm)   VGS (F 4pm)   TWIGS (Th/F 1:30pm)

Recent papers: Exceptional Loci on M _0,n and Hypergraph Curves , with Ana-Maria, 39p.
Stable Pair, Tropical, and Log Canonical Compact Moduli of Del Pezzo Surfaces, with Paul and Sean, Inventiones 178 , no.1 (2009), 173-228
Equations for M _0,n, with Sean, International J. of Math. 20, no.9 (2009), 1--26
Elimination Theory for Tropical Varieties, with Bernd, Math. Research Letters 15, no.3 (2008), 543-562
The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation, with Bernd and Josephine, Moscow Math. J. 7, no.2 (2007), 327-346
Compactifications of Subvarieties of Tori, Amer. J. Math. 129, no. 4 (2007), 1087-1104
Hilbert's 14-th Problem and Cox Rings, with Ana-Maria, Compositio 142 (2006), 1479-1498
Compactification of the Moduli Space of Hyperplane Arrangements, with Paul and Sean,   J. Algebraic Geometry 15 (2006), 657-680
Geometry of Chow Quotients of Grassmannians, with Sean, Duke Math. J. 134, no. 2 (2006), 259-311
Projective Duality and Homogeneous Spaces, Springer 2005

Upcoming Talks: Colloquiums at Arizona (Nov 12) and Amherst (Nov 19)  
Conferences: Paul and I organize a Spring meeting of AGNES, a new series of algebraic geometry workshops, in Amherst Apr 10-11, 2010.

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