[Seminar] An Introduction to Mirror Symmetry: Categorial, Enumerative, and Arithmetic Perspectives | Dr. Michael Lathwood (OIST)

The speaker: Dr. Michael Lathwood (OIST)

Title: An Introduction to Mirror Symmetry: Categorial, Enumerative, and Arithmetic Perspectives

Abstract: Mirror symmetry relates the symplectic geometry of one algebraic variety to the complex geometry of another.  Beginning with its origins in superconformal field theory and the curve-counting predictions of the early 1990s, I will follow one object -- the period integral -- through the categorical, enumerative, and arithmetic facets of the subject, and describe my recent work using mathematical and computational techniques, such as tropical geometry and p-adic analysis, to extend each of them beyond the Calabi-Yau and Fano settings in which they were originally established.

Date and time: 21st Aug Friday at 15:00