Curve Counting on Calabi–Yau Quintics

Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
Event time: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 4:30pm
Location: 
KT 801
Speaker: 
Wei-Ping Li
Speaker affiliation: 
Columbia University
Event description: 

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 the Calabi–Yau quintic three-fold.

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