Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$120,000.00

Award Date

11/05/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

When a smooth complex surface degenerates to a singular surface with an ordinary double point there is a so called vanishing cycle: a two dimensional sphere which collapses to a point. However, in the theory of moduli of surfaces, more complicated degener