Radu Laza Professor Department of Mathematics Stony Brook University

Office: Math 4-121

E-mail: radu.laza@stonybrook.edu

• Fall 2025 - Applied Algebra (MAT 312/AMS 351), Introduction to higher dimensional algebraic geometry (Topics in AG, MAT 663)
• Spring 2026 - Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (MAT 552)

• Moduli of Surfaces and Beyond (lecture series), IBS (Daejon, Korea), Nov 3-7, 2025.
• Cycles on moduli spaces, CIRM (Luminy, France), Nov 17-21, 2025.
• Iberoamerican Congress on Singularities (plenary speaker), Valpraiso (Chile), Dec 9-13, 2025.
• Deformations and Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (Namikawa 60), RIMS (Kyoto, Japan), Jan 19-23, 2026.
• Spencer Fest, IMSA (Miami), Mar 23-27, 2026.

Acknowledgement: I gratefully acknowledge the past and ongoing support of the NSF, the Simons Foundation, the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, and the Sloan Foundation.

Recent Publications (partially supported by NSF DMS-2502134, DMS-2101640)

• Isotrivial Lagrangian fibrations of compact hyper-Kaehler manifolds (w. YJ Kim and O. Martin), to appear in J. Math. Pures Appl.
• Hodge theory of degenerations, (III): a vanishing-cycle calculus for non-isolated singularities (w. M. Kerr), preprint 2023, submitted.
• Deformations of Calabi-Yau varieties with isolated log canonical singularities (w. R. Friedman), Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2025, no. 10, Paper No. rnaf112, 36 pp.
• Deformations of Calabi-Yau varieties with k-liminal singularities (w. R. Friedman), Forum Math Sigma Vol. 12 (2024), e59, 1-25.
• The Higher Du Bois and higher rational singularities properties for isolated singularities (w. R. Friedman), J. Algebraic Geom. 33 (2024), No. 3, 493-520.
• Higher Du Bois and higher rational singularities (w. R. Friedman, and an Appendix by M. Saito), Duke Math. J. 173 (2024), no. 10, 1839-1881.
• Non-isomorphic smooth compactifications of the moduli space of cubic surfaces (with S. Casalaina-Martin, S. Grushevsky, and K. Hulek), Nagoya Math. J. 254 (2024), 315-365.
• Deformations of some local Calabi-Yau manifolds (w. R. Friedman), EPIGA, special volume in honor of Claire Voisin, Article no. 18 (2024).
• Deformations of singular Fano and Calabi-Yau varieties (w. R. Friedman), J. Differential Geom. 131 (2025), no. 1, 65-131.
• Hodge theory of degenerations, (II): Vanishing cohomology and geometric applications, (w. M. Kerr), to appear in "Current developments in Hodge theory", Proceedings of Hodge theory at IMSA, Simons Symposia (Springer).
• Deformation of rational singularities and Hodge structure (w. M. Kerr and M. Saito), Algebr. Geom. 9 (2022), no. 4, 476-501.

Selected Publications (my papers are available on arXiv; see also my Scholar profile)

• Cohomology of the moduli space of cubic threefolds and its smooth models (with S. Casalaina-Martin, S. Grushevsky, and K. Hulek), Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 282 (2023), No. 1391.
• The LLV decomposition of hyper-Kaehler cohomology (w. M. Green, YJ Kim, and C. Robles), Math. Ann. 382 (2022), no. 3-4, 1517-1590
• Automorphisms and Periods of Cubic Fourfolds (with Z. Zheng), Math. Z. 300 (2022), no. 2, 1455-1507.
• Hodge theory of degenerations, (I): Consequences of the decomposition theorem , (w. M. Kerr; with an Appendix by M. Saito), Selecta Math. 27 (2021), No. 4, Paper No. 71.
• Birational geometry of the moduli space of quartic K3 surfaces, (with K. O'Grady), Compositio Math. 155 (2019), no. 9, 1655-1710.
• On the moduli space of pairs consisting of a cubic threefold and a hyperplane, (w. G. Pearlstein and Z. Zhang), Adv. Math. 340 (2018), 684-722.
• Remarks on degenerations of hyper-Kaehler manifolds, (with J. Kollár, G. Saccà and C. Voisin), Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 68 (2018), no. 7, 2837-2882.
• A hyper-Kaehler compactification of the Intermediate Jacobian fibration associated to a cubic fourfold (with G. Saccà and C. Voisin), Acta Math. 218 (2017), no. 1, 55-135.
• The KSBA compactification for the moduli space of degree two K3 pairs, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 18 (2016), no. 2, 225-279.
• Log canonical models and variation of GIT for genus four canonical curves (w. S. Casalaina-Martin and D. Jensen), J. Algebraic Geom. 23 (2014), 727-764.
• Semi-algebraic horizontal subvarieties of Calabi-Yau type (w. R. Friedman), Duke Math. J. 162 (2013), no. 12, 2077-2148.
• Moduli space of cubic fourfolds via the period map, Ann. of Math. 172 (2010), no. 1, 673-711.
• Moduli space of cubic fourfolds (the GIT compactification), J. Algebraic Geom. 18 (2009), 511-545.
• The moduli space of cubic threefolds via degenerations of the intermediate Jacobian (w. S. Casalaina-Martin), J. Reine Angew. Math. 633 (2009), 29-65.
• Deformations of singularities and variation of GIT quotients Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), no. 4, 2109-2161 (published version of my Columbia thesis).

Expository:

• Classical Period Domains (with Z. Zhang), in Recent Advances in Hodge Theory (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series), Cambridge Univ. Press, 2016.
• Perspectives on the construction and compactification of moduli spaces, in Compactifying Moduli Spaces (Advanced Courses in Mathematics, CRM Barcelona), Birkhauser, 2016, 1-35.
• GIT and moduli with a twist, in "Handbook of Moduli" vol. 2, Adv. Lect. Math. 25 (2013), Int. Press, 259-297.

Books edited:

• Calabi-Yau Varieties: Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics: Lecture Notes on Concentrated Graduate Courses (w. Schuett and N. Yui), lecture notes based on the concentrated graduate courses held during the thematic program on Calabi-Yau varieties at Fields Institute (Fall 2013), Fields Institute Monographs, Springer 2015.
• Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi-Yau Threefolds (w. M. Schuett and N. Yui), Fields Institute Communications, vol. 67, Springer 2013, (Proceedings of the 2011 Fields workshop on Calabi-Yau's and K3's).

Current Students and Postdocs

• Dingchang Zhou
• Heather Werth
• Max Hofmann
• Yipen Zhou
• Kuan-Wen Chen (Simons PD)
• Chongyao Chen (Stony Brook-Hefei PD)

Former Associates

• Lisa Marquand (PhD, graduated May 2023, birational automorphisms of hyper-Kaehler manifolds), now at NYU.
• Olivier Martin (postdoc), now at IMPA.
• Alexandra Viktorova (graduated Aug 2022, singularities of cubic threefolds), now at KU Leuven.
• Yoonjoo Kim (PhD, graduated May 2022, Lagrangian fibrations on hyper-Kaehler manifolds), now at Columbia.
• Francois Greer (RTG postdoc), now at Michigan State
• Adrian Brunyate (NSF postdoc)
• Giulia Sacca (postdoc), now at Columbia
• Zheng Zhang (PhD, geometric and motivic realizations of VHS), now at Shanghai Tech
• Patricio Gallardo (PhD, moduli of surfaces of general type, esp. quintics), now at UC Riverside
• Ken Ascher (undergraduate, Honors Thesis), now at UC Irvine.
• Dave Jensen (postdoc), now at U. Kentucky.

Past Activities (organizer; partial list)

• AIM workshop on Higher Du Bois and higher rational singularities (w. B. Dirks), Pasadena (CA), Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2024.
• School and Workshop on Moduli, K-trivial Varieties, and Related Topics (w. J.-M. Hwang and Y. Lee), Daejon (Korea), February 21-29, 2024.
• Discrete groups and Moduli (w. S. Kondo and S. Mukai), Nagoya, June 17-20, 2019.
• Hodge Theory, Moduli and Representation Theory (final conference for the FRG project), Stony Brook, August 14-18, 2017.
• Positivity in Arithmetic and Geometry (Spring School), Orsay (France), May 29-June 2, 2017.
• Hyper-Kaehler Manifolds, Hodge Theory and Chow Groups (Sanya, China, Dec 18-23, 2016)
• Calabi-Yau varieties: Arithmetic, geometry and physics (Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK, June 20-25, 2016)
• Algebraic Cycles and Moduli (CRM Montreal, June 2-8, 2016)
• Program on Complex, p-adic, and logarithmic Hodge theory and their applications (SCGP, Mar-Apr, 2016)
• Program on Moduli spaces and singularities in algebraic and Riemannian geometry (SCGP, Aug-Nov, 2015)
• Mini-school on Invariants of Singularities in zero and positive characteristics (December 4, 2015, Stony Brook)
• Collapsing Calabi-Yau Manifolds (SCGP, Aug 31-Sept 4, 2015)
• Topology of algebraic varieties (IAS, 2014-2015)
• Perspectives on complex algebraic geometry (Columbia University, May 22-25, 2015)
• New techniques in birational geometry (Stony Brook, April 6-10, 2015)
• K3, Enriques Surfaces and Related Topics (Nagoya, Nov 10-14, 2014)
• Thematic Program on Calabi-Yau varieties (Fields Institute, Fall 2013).

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