Title: Uhlenbeck compactification as a Bridgeland moduli space
Abstract: In recent years, Bridgeland stability conditions have become a central tool in the study of moduli of sheaves and their birational geometry. However, moduli spaces of Bridgeland semistable objects are known to be projective only in a limited number of cases. After reviewing the classical moduli theory of sheaves on curves and surfaces, I will present a new projectivity result for a Bridgeland moduli space on an arbitrary smooth projective surface, as well as discuss how to interpret the Uhlenbeck compactification of the moduli of slope stable vector bundles as a Bridgeland moduli space. The proof is based on studying a determinantal line bundle constructed by Bayer and Macrì. Time permitting, I will mention some ongoing work on PT-stability on a 3-fold.