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title: "UGA Graduate Student Orientation Lightning Talks"
abstract: "The search for geometrically meaningful compactifications of moduli spaces of algebraic varieties is a central problem in algebraic geometry. My research focuses on explicitly and effectively classifying boundary strata of stable pair compactifications of Enriques and Coble surfaces."
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# Introduction

Today I'll be reporting on joint work with my advisor Valery Alexeev and research collaborators Philip Engel and Luca Schaffler.