Northwestern-Notre Dame-UIC Complex Geometry Seminar

Spring 2022

Our next meeting will be held in-person at UIC SEO636 on Tuesday April 5th.

Tuesday April 5th, 3pm Central Time
Tristan Collins (MIT) Complete Calabi-Yau metrics on the complement of two divisors

I will discuss the existence of a complete Calabi-Yau metric on the complement of a simple normal crossings anti-canonical divisor with two components, as well as possible extensions to more general situations.​ This is joint work with Yang Li.

Tuesday April 5th, 4.30pm Central Time
Jakob Hultgren (University of Maryland) Singular affine structures, real Monge-Ampère equations and unit simplices

Recent developments in complex geometry have highlighted the importance of real Monge-Ampère equations on singular affine manifolds, in particular for the SYZ conjecture concerning collapsing families of Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show that for symmetric data, the real Monge-Ampère equation on the unit simplex admits a unique Aleksandrov solution. This is concluded as a special case of a result giving necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of optimal transport for existence of solutions. I will outline the proof and explain a built in phenomena reminiscent of free boundary problems. Time permitting, I will discuss an application to the SYZ conjecture related to recent work by Y. Li.