Connections between quantum field theory (QFT) and topological modular forms (TMF)
Sunday, September 24, 2018
In addition to informal discussions (perhaps beginning as early as
Saturday), we will have three talks on Sunday (all in Hurley
258 ).
Schedule
| Time |
Name |
Title |
| 10:00 am |
Dan Berwick-Evens (UIUC) |
Three questions on the relationship between field theories and elliptic cohomology |
| 1:00 pm |
Charles Rezk (UIUC) |
Complex analytic elliptic cohomology and double loop groups
|
| 3:00 pm |
Nat Stapleton (Regensburg) |
Power operations and field theories |
Mini workshop on complex geometry
April 29, 2017
All talks will be held in room 258, Hurley Hall .
Schedule
| Time |
Name |
Title |
| 11:00 -- 11:30 |
Coffee and refereshments |
|
| 11:30 -- 12:20 |
Mihai Păun (UIC) |
Algebraic fiber spaces and positivity of
higher direct images
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We will present a few recent
results obtained in collaboration
with Bo Berndtsson and Xu Wang.
As an application, we will discuss a new proof of
an important result due to Viehweg-Zuo.
|
| 12:20 -- 2:00 |
Lunch break |
|
| 2:00 -- 2:50 |
John Lesieutre (UIC) |
A variety with non-finitely generated automorphism group
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I will explain the construction of a smooth, projective variety for which the group of automorphisms is countable but not finitely generated.
|
| 3:10 -- 4:00 |
Jian Xiao (Northwestern) |
Positivity in the inverse σk equation
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We discuss some positivity results in the conjecture proposed by Lejmi and Szekelyhidi on finding effective necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability of the inverse σk equation.
|
| 4:20 -- 5:10 |
Valentino Tosatti (Northwestern) |
Collapsing hyperkahler manifolds
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Consider a projective hyperkahler manifolds with a surjective holomorphic map (with a section) with connected fibers onto a lower-dimensional manifold. In the case the base must be half-dimensional projective space, and the generic fibers are holomorphic Lagrangian tori. I will explain how hyperkahler metrics on the total space with volume of the torus fibers shrinking to zero, collapse smoothly away from the singular fibers to a special Kahler metric on the base, whose metric completion equals the global collapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limit, which has a singular set of real Hausdorff codimension at least 2. The resulting picture is compatible with the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow mirror symmetry, and can be used to prove a conjecture of Kontsevich-Soibelman and Gross-Wilson for large complex structure limits which arise via hyperkahler rotation from this construction. This is joint work with Yuguang Zhang.
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Contact: Gabor Szekelyhidi.