NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar
 
 
Hurwitz Numbers and Moduli of Curves 
 
 

Tom Graber

(Harvard University)
 
 

Northeastern University

509 Lake Hall

1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, 2000

 
 
Abstract:I will discuss a formula relating the number of ramified coverings of the sphere to integrals over the moduli space of curves. This formula (discovered by Ekedahl-Lando-Shapiro-Vainshtein) has applications both to the geometry of moduli space and the combinatorics of the symmetric group. 
 
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