%0 Journal Article %T Moduli of algebraic and tropical curves %A Dan Abramovich %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X This is mostly* a non-technical exposition of the joint work arXiv:1212.0373 with Caporaso and Payne. Topics include: Moduli of Riemann surfaces / algebraic curves; Deligne-Mumford compactification; Dual graphs and the combinatorics of the compactification; Tropical curves and their moduli; Non-archimedean geometry and comparison. * Maybe the last section is technical. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0474v1