【2020春】Mirror symmetry: categories and constructions

任课教师 Speaker:Will Donovan
时间 Time: 每周一、周三13:30-15:05 2020-3-2 ~ 5-20
地点 Venue:近春园西楼第三会议室

课程描述 Description

Mirror symmetry is a collection of conjectural relationships between symplectic and algebraic geometry, inspired by the physics of superstrings. Though it is far from being fully understood, it has already had deep impact in geometry and related fields including representation theory.

According to Kontsevich’s homological mirror symmetry proposal, it may be formulated by equivalences between certain symplectic and algebraic categories. I will introduce these objects, and do some case studies: in particular, I will develop toric geometry of varieties and orbifolds to give a source of examples, and discuss recent progress in understanding mirror symmetry via constructible sheaves.


E-mail:donovan@tsinghua.edu.cn

预备知识 Prerequisites

Some familiarity with symplectic or algebraic geometry.

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