Teaching and Professional Fellowship Report 2004-2005 : A Framework for Networking for the Study and Research of Costume for Performance

The ideas behind this fellowship emerge from teaching the subject, from the research into contemporary practice undertaken and also from my own practice as a costume designer. The aim was the creation of an international network that will facilitate the exchange of information, student exchanges, collaborative projects, and research projects to raise the profile of the subject

Local structure of abelian covers

We study normal finite abelian covers of smooth varieties. In particular we establish combinatorial conditions so that a normal finite abelian cover of a smooth variety is Gorenstein or locally complete intersection.Comment: Revised version; latex: 12 page

A semiregularity map annihilating obstructions to deforming holomorphic maps

We study deformations of holomorphic maps of compact, complex, K\"ahler manifolds. In particular, we describe a generalization of Bloch's semiregularity map that annihilates obstructions to deform holomorphic maps with fixed codomain.Comment: 14 pages, minor changes, revised introduction; scheduled to appear in Canadian Math. Bull. Issue 54/3 (September, 2011