Geometry, Symmetry, and Physics Seminar

Yale University

Spring 2025


Mondays, 4:30–6:00, in KT 801

unless otherwise noted

Organizers: Sam DeHority, Ivan Loseu, Junliang Shen, Minh-Tâm Trinh


Meetings are held in Kline Tower, KT 801, unless otherwise noted.

Jan 27 — Mengwei Hu (Yale):

Feb 3 —  Wei-Ping Li (HKUST): Curve counting on Calabi-Yau quintics

Abstract: I will give a brief review on how to count curves on algebraic manifolds. I will emphasise more on the evolution of counting curves, especially on the importance of change of viewpoints at various stages. I will mention some key new concepts or methods introduced whenever we meet some conceptual or computational difficulties.  Near the end, I will present a method to calculate Gromov-Witten invariants of Calabi-Yau quintics three-fold.

Feb 10 — Linus Hamann (Harvard):

Feb 17 — 

Feb 24 — 

Mar 3 — Griffin Wang (IAS):

Mar 10 — Spring Break

Mar 17 — Spring Break

Mar 24 — Tomoyuki Arakawa (RIMS/Kyoto): 

Mar 31 — 

Apr 7 — Wenbin Yan (YMSC/Tsinghua):

Apr 14 — 

Apr 21 — Ilya Dumanski (MIT):

Apr 28 — 

Apr ?? — Sujay Nair (Berkeley):