Previous Special Year Seminar

Mar
31
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Speculations about homological mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces
10:45am

The wrapped Fukaya category of an algebraic hypersurface $H$ in $(C*)^n$ is conjecturally related via homological mirror symmetry to the derived category of singularities of a toric Calabi-Yau manifold $X$, whose moment polytope is determined by the...

Mar
29
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Homological mirror symmetry for the pair of pants
10:45am

Homological mirror symmetry postulates a derived equivalence between the wrapped Fukaya category of an exact symplectic manifold and a category of coherent sheaves or matrix factorizations on a mirror space. This talk will provide an introduction to...

Mar
28
2017

Floer Homology and Khovanov Homology Reading Group

Mirror symmetry for $T^*P^1$ and conjectural models for Khovanov homology
10:45am

Consider $T^*P^1$ as the B-model of a mirror equivalence. It turns out that the A-model mirror depends on choices and I will describe two of these mirrors: one with underlying symplectic manifold the complement of a conic in $T^*S^2$, and the other...

Mar
17
2017

Joint BCOV/Hodge-de Rham Reading Group

Calabi-Yau geometry and quantum B-model
2:00pm

We discuss the Kadaira-Spencer gauge theory (or BCOV theory) on Calabi-Yau geometry. We explain Givental's loop space formalism at cochain level which leads to a degenerate BV theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds. Homotopic BV quantization together with a...