Sarah Koch and John Hubbard, An Analytic Construcion of the Deligne-Mumford Compactification

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EDITORIAL:  This little gem of an article nearly slipped past me, but luckily I read in to its 3rd paragraph – and Bonanza it is about a topic that should be of interest to our Patrons of the Cosmic Cafe Show!  [CCS]

A woman has won the maths world’s “Nobel prize” for the first time. Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University, California, received the Fields medal today at the International…