Samouil Molcho

Email: samouil.molcho (at) math (dot) ethz (dot) ch

Office: HG F27.6


I am a postdoc at ETH Zurich working in algebraic geometry, under Rahul Pandharipande . My advisor was Dan Abramovich .

Other Information

My CV

Research Interests

Logarithmic and Tropical Geometry; Gromov-Witten Theory and Enumerative Geometry; Tautological Ring and Moduli of Curves; Abelian Varieties.

My research focuses on using techniques of logarithmic geometry to understand geometric problems, particularly problems that arise from moduli theory. In the past few years, I have been studying the interactions between compactified Jacobians, moduli spaces of stable maps and the moduli space of curves, and the cycles arising from these interactions.

Papers

1. Logarithmic Geometry and Manifolds with Corners
joint with W.D. Gillam
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2. Localization for Logarithmic Stable Maps
joint with E. Routis - in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B, 6 (2019)
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3. Logarithmic Stable Toric Varieties and Their Moduli
joint with K. Ascher - in Algebraic Geometry 3(2016), no. 3, 296-319
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4. Moduli of Morphisms of Logarithmic Schemes
Appendix C in J. Wise's paper - in Algebra & Number Theory 10 (2016), no.4, 695-735
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5. A Theory of Stacky Fans
with W.D. Gillam
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6. Universal Weak Semistable Reduction
in Israel Journal of Math, 242 (2021), no.1, 55-82
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7. The Logarithmic Picard Group and its Tropicalization
with J. Wise - in Compositio Mathematica, 158(7), 1477-1562.
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8. Logarithmically Regular Maps
with M. Temkin - in Math Ann. 379 (2021), no. 1-2, 325-346
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9. Models of Jacobians of Curves
joint with D. Holmes, G. Orecchia, T. Poiret - Crelle's Journal Vol. 2023 Issue 801
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10. The Hodge bundle, the universal 0-section, and the log Chow ring of the moduli space of curves
joint with R.Pandharipande and J. Schmitt - in Compositio Mathematica 159(2), 306-354(2023)
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11. A case study of intersections on blowups of the moduli of curves
joint with D. Ranganathan - to appear in Algebra & Number Theory
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12. Tropicalization of the universal Jacobian
joint with M.Melo, M. Ulirsch, F. Viviani - in Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique, Volume 6 (2022)
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13. Logarithmic Double Ramification Cycles
joint with D.Holmes, R.Pandharipande, A. Pixton, J. Schmitt
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14. Smooth Compactifications of the Abel-Jacobi Section - in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, vol. 11, 2023, p. e88.
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15. Pullbacks of Brill-Noether Classes under Abel-Jacobi Sections
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16. Remarks on logarithmic etale sheafification
joint with J.Wise
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17. Tautological Projections of Cycles on the Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties
joint with S. Canning, D. Oprea, R. Pandharipande
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The following papers are complete, but my collaborators and I had wanted to revisit in the future to make additions. Since a revision has not happened in a while, and the ideas in the papers have been useful to me in other contexts, I post them here in case someone else finds them helpful as well.
18. Stable Logarithmic Maps as Moduli Spaces of Flow Lines
joint with W.D. Gillam
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19. Tropicalizing the Moduli Space of Broken Toric Varieties
joint with J. Wise
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Teaching

This semester I'm running a Master's and Bachelor's seminar on Toric Geometry. The website is here .

Some Notes

These are notes from some online talks given during the pandemic. I imagine there are quite a few errors inside, but I hope the informal presentation is legible and useful.
1. Logarithmic Intersection Theory of Jacobians (Talk for Dan's birthday conference)
2. An overview of Logarithmic Stable Maps (at ETH)
3. Logarithmic Geometry (Four Lectures at ETH)
4. Piecewise Polynomials, \lambda_g and the Log Tautological Ring etc. (at ETH)
5. The Logarithmic Tautological Ring (for the MAP conference)
6. The Strict Transform in Log Geometry (at Stanford)
7. Weak Semistable Reduction (for Dan's seminar at ICERM)
7.Four lectures on Logarithmic Double Ramification Cycles from Navid's "Guided Meditations" Seminar: 1,2,3,4