Donaldson-Thomas invariants

Seminar: 
Whittemore Lectures
Event time: 
Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
215 LOM
Speaker: 
Kai Behrend
Speaker affiliation: 
University of British Columbia
Event description: 

The third talk will address some attempts at categorifying Donaldson-
Thomas theory. This means that we will discuss how one might try to
construct a cohomology theory expressing Donaldson-Thomas invariants
as alternating sums of dimensions of cohomology groups. In
particular, we will construct a virtual de Rham complex for
intersections of Lagrangian submanifolds inside a symplectic manifold.

Special note: 
Part 3