Mirror symmetry and math/physics seminar (UPenn)
Meeting time: Tuesdays @ noon -1:30 pm
Location: DRL 4E19
Schedule:
Feb 04 Arithmetic quantum field theory by Nadav Gropper
Feb 11 IMS1: motivation and an example by Avik Chakravarty
Feb 18 IMS2: Log geometry by Avik Chakravarty
Feb 25 IMS3: Log GW theory and construction of the Mirror family by Daebeom Choi
Mar 4 Affine Springer fibers and Hitchin fibers by Xingyu Meng
Mar 18 Quantum character varieties and Skeins by Victor Alekseev
Mar 25 No meeting this week
Apr 1 Moduli of Higgs bundles and its complexification by Duong Dinh
Apr 8 Donagi-Pantev's construction of Hecke eigensheaves and wobbly bundles by Duong Dinh
Apr 15& 22 Intersections of quadrics and nc Hodge structures by Tony Pantev
Topics we may cover:
Arithmetic quantum field theory
Geometric Langlands and Hitchin systems (Donagi-Pantev, Beilinson-Drinfeld, Drinfeld, Haussel-Hitchin)
Intrinsic mirror symmetry (IMS)
Langlands and QFT
Skein modules and quantization
SYZ fibration
nc Hodge structures