Paul Hacking

University of Washington
Department of Mathematics
Box 354350
Seattle, WA 98195-4350
hacking@math.washington.edu

Office: Padelford C-524
Phone: 206.616.2428


Teaching.

Office hours: Mon and Tue 4:00-4:50PM, Fri 1:30PM-2:20PM in C524 Padelford.


Spring 2009: Math 307 Introduction to differential equations, Sections B and C. Section website

Fall 2008: Math 124 Calculus with analytic geometry I, Sections C and D. Course website Section website

Spring 2008: Math 583C Compact complex surfaces

Winter 2008: Math 508A Algebraic geometry


Research.

My research is partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0650052.


Stable pair, tropical, and log canonical compactifications of moduli spaces of del Pezzo surfaces, with Sean Keel and Jenia Tevelev, 51pp., to appear in Inventiones Mathematicae pdf

Smoothable del Pezzo surfaces with quotient singularities, with Yuri Prokhorov, 22pp., to appear in Compositio Mathematica, pdf

Canonical singularities of orders over surfaces, with Daniel Chan and Colin Ingalls, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 98 (2009), 83--115, pdf.

The moduli space of curves is rigid, Algebra and Number Theory 2 (2008), no. 7, 809--818, pdf.

Homology of tropical varieties, Collect. Math. 59 (2008), no. 3, 263--273, pdf

Compactification of the moduli space of hyperplane arrangements, with Sean Keel and Jenia Tevelev, J. Algebraic Geom. 15 (2006), 657--680, pdf.

Compact moduli of plane curves, Duke Math. J. 124 (2004), no. 2, 213--257, pdf.

Semistable divisorial contractions, J. Algebra 278 (2004), no. 1, 173--186, pdf.


Lecture Notes.

Algebraic curves and Riemann surfaces, 59pp., pdf

Compact complex surfaces, 84pp., pdf

Lectures on flips and minimal models, with Alessio Corti, J\'anos Koll\'ar, Robert Lazarsfeld, and Mircea Musta\c{t}\u{a}, 29pp., pdf.


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