This is a report on joint work with Christopher Hacon. We give a new proof of Alexeev's boundedness
result for stable surfaces which is independent of the base field. We also highlight some important
consequences of this result.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/5285