Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Amount

$775,600.00

Award Date

5/27/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The main objective of the proposed research is to find a geometrically meaningful compactification of the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces, obtained as an instance of Mumford's theory of toroidal compactifications.The theory requires a fan structure