research overview Casalaina-Martin performs research in mathematics. He is an algebraic geometer with a broad range of interests. His research focuses on curves, abelian varieties, vector bundles, Hodge theory, and moduli spaces.
keywords Algebraic geometry, curves, abelian varieties, vector bundles, Hodge theory, and moduli spaces
selected publications chapter A tour of stable reduction with applications. 65-117. 2013 The geometry of the ball quotient model of the moduli space of genus four curves. Contemporary Mathematics. 107-+. 2012 Singularities of theta divisors in algebraic geometry. Contemporary Mathematics. 25-43. 2008 conference proceeding On the Image of the Second l-adic Bloch Map. Progress in Mathematics. 15-96. 2019 journal article DECOMPOSITION OF THE DIAGONAL, INTERMEDIATE JACOBIANS, AND UNIVERSAL CODIMENSION-2 CYCLES IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC. Asterisque. 1-144. 2025 The birational geometry of moduli of cubic surfaces and cubic surfaces with a line 2025 NON-ISOMORPHIC SMOOTH COMPACTIFICATIONS OF THE MODULI SPACE OF CUBIC SURFACES. Nagoya Mathematical Journal. 315-365. 2024 The Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds with a Non-Eckardt Type Involution via Intermediate Jacobians. International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN). 16104-16139. 2023 Cohomology of the Moduli Space of Cubic Threefolds and Its Smooth Models. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society. I-+. 2023 A functorial approach to regular homomorphisms. Algebraic Geometry. 87-129. 2023 The Walker Abel-Jacobi map descends. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 1799-1817. 2022 The moduli space of cubic surface pairs via the intermediate Jacobians of Eckardt cubic threefolds. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 1-34. 2021 Complete moduli of cubic threefolds and their intermediate Jacobians. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 259-316. 2021 DISTINGUISHED MODELS OF INTERMEDIATE JACOBIANS. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu. 891-918. 2020 NORMAL FUNCTIONS FOR ALGEBRAICALLY TRIVIAL CYCLES ARE ALGEBRAIC FOR ARITHMETIC REASONS. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. 2019 Derived equivalent threefolds, algebraic representatives, and the coniveau filtration. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 123-131. 2019 Parameter Spaces for Algebraic Equivalence. International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN). 1863-1893. 2019 An introduction to moduli stacks, with a view towards Higgs bundles on algebraic curves 2018 Derived equivalent varieties have isogenous Picard varieties, with Jeff Achter, Katrina Honigs and Charles Vial; appendix to Derived equivalence, Albanese varieties, and the zeta functions of 3-dimensional varieties, by Katrina Honigs, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), no.3, 1005--10013.. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 2018 GENERIC VANISHING AND MINIMAL COHOMOLOGY CLASSES ON ABELIAN FIVEFOLDS. Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 553-581. 2018 On descending cohomology geometrically. Compositio Mathematica. 1446-1478. 2017 The singularities and birational geometry of the compactified universal Jacobian. Algebraic Geometry. 353-393. 2017 Extending the Prym map to toroidal compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties (with an appendix by Mathieu Dutour Sikiric). Journal of the European Mathematical Society (Print). 659-723. 2017 The local structure of compactified Jacobians. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 510-542. 2015 LOG CANONICAL MODELS AND VARIATION OF GIT FOR GENUS 4 CANONICAL CURVES. Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 727-764. 2014 SIMULTANEOUS SEMI-STABLE REDUCTION FOR CURVES WITH ADE SINGULARITIES. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 2271-2295. 2013 The geometry and combinatorics of cographic toric face rings. Algebra & Number Theory. 1781-1815. 2013 A RIEMANN SINGULARITY THEOREM FOR INTEGRAL CURVES. American Journal of Mathematics. 1143-1165. 2012 Singularities of Brill-Noether loci for vector bundles on a curve. Mathematische Nachrichten. 1846-1871. 2011 The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian. Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik. 29-65. 2009 Singularities of the Prym theta divisor. Annals of Mathematics. 163-204. 2009 Some examples of vector bundles in the base locus of the generalized theta divisor. Comptes Rendus Mathematique. 173-176. 2009 Cubic threefolds and abelian varieties of dimension five. II. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 115-125. 2008 COHOMOLOGICAL SUPPORT LOCI FOR ABEL-PRYM CURVES. Le Matematiche. 205-222. 2008 Cubic threefolds and Abelian varieties of dimension five. Journal of Algebraic Geometry. 295-326. 2005
education and training M.Phil., Columbia University In the City of New York 2004 Ph.D., Columbia University In the City of New York 2004 M.A., Columbia University In the City of New York 2000 B.S., Brown University 1998
awards and honors Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians, conferred by Simons Foundation, 2018 Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians, conferred by Simons Foundation, 2014
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