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Holomorphic Curves Focus Group

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Sep
21
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Non-archimedean geometry for symplectic geometers
10:45am|S-101

I will explain basic tools for thinking about derived categories of coherent sheaves on rigid analytic spaces that are conducive to the study of homological mirror symmetry. A particular focus will be placed on the case of curves, and on methods...

Sep
23
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Non-archimedean geometry for symplectic geometers
10:45am|S-101

I will explain basic tools for thinking about derived categories of coherent sheaves on rigid analytic spaces that are conducive to the study of homological mirror symmetry. A particular focus will be placed on the case of curves, and on methods...

Oct
26
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
10:45am|S-101

Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants generalize usual and relative Gromov-Witten invariants and were first suggested by Siebert and then recently introduced by Gross-Siebert and Abramovich-Chen. Applications include more general degeneration...

Oct
28
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
10:45am|S-101

Following Katz-Nishinou, we will compute the number of lines on a quintic threefold in $\mathbb P^4$ by degenerating the quintic to the union of coordinate hyperplanes. This motivates degeneration formulae in Gromov-Witten theory that I will give...

Nov
30
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Noncommutative geometry, smoothness, and Fukaya categories
10:45am|S-101

Noncommutative geometry, as advocated by Konstevich, proposes to replace the study of (commutative) varieties by the study of their (noncommutative) dg/A-infinity categories of perfect complexes. Conveniently, these techniques can then also be...

Dec
02
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Noncommutative geometry, smoothness, and Fukaya categories
10:45am|S-101

Noncommutative geometry, as advocated by Konstevich, proposes to replace the study of (commutative) varieties by the study of their (noncommutative) dg/A-infinity categories of perfect complexes. Conveniently, these techniques can then also be...

Dec
14
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Numerical invariants from bounding chains
10:45am|S-101

I'll begin with a leisurely introduction to Fukaya A-infinity algebras and their bounding chains. Then I'll explain how to use bounding chains to define open Gromov-Witten invariants. The bounding chain invariants can be computed using an open...

Dec
16
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Numerical invariants from bounding chains
10:45am|S-101

I'll begin with a leisurely introduction to Fukaya A-infinity algebras and their bounding chains. Then I'll explain how to use bounding chains to define open Gromov-Witten invariants. The bounding chain invariants can be computed using an open...

Jan
18
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Constructible sheaves in symplectic topology
10:45am|S-101

I will give an introduction to the microlocal theory of sheaves after Kashiwara and Schapira, and some of its recent applications in symplectic topology. I'll start with the basics, but target applications for the 75 minutes are Tamarkin's proof of...

Jan
20
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Constructible sheaves in mirror symmetry
10:45am|S-101

I will survey the coherent-constructible correspondence of Bondal, which embeds the derived category of coherent sheaves on a toric variety into the derived category of constructible sheaves on a compact torus. The tools of the first lecture turn...

Feb
01
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Noncommutative algebraic varieties, their properties and geometric realizations
Dmitry Orlov
10:45am

We are will discuss a notion of noncommutative and derived algebraic variety. This approach comes from a generalization of derived categories of (quasi)coherent sheaves on usual algebraic varieties and their enhancements. We are going to talk about...

Feb
03
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Noncommutative algebraic varieties, their properties and geometric realizations
Dmitry Orlov
10:45am

We are will discuss a notion of noncommutative and derived algebraic variety. This approach comes from a generalization of derived categories of (quasi)coherent sheaves on usual algebraic varieties and their enhancements. We are going to talk about...

Feb
08
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Noncommutative algebraic varieties, their properties and geometric realizations II
Dmitry Orlov
10:45am

Continuation of Friday, Feb 3 minicourse. We will discuss a notion of noncommutative and derived algebraic variety. This approach comes from a generalization of derived categories (quasi) coherent sheaves on usual algebraic varieties and their...

Mar
01
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Canonical coordinates for Calabi Yau manifolds I
10:45am

In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert, which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...

Mar
03
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Canonical coordinates for Calabi Yau manifolds II
10:45am

In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert, which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...

Mar
29
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Homological mirror symmetry for the pair of pants
10:45am

Homological mirror symmetry postulates a derived equivalence between the wrapped Fukaya category of an exact symplectic manifold and a category of coherent sheaves or matrix factorizations on a mirror space. This talk will provide an introduction to...

Mar
31
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Speculations about homological mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces
10:45am

The wrapped Fukaya category of an algebraic hypersurface $H$ in $(C*)^n$ is conjecturally related via homological mirror symmetry to the derived category of singularities of a toric Calabi-Yau manifold $X$, whose moment polytope is determined by the...

Apr
12
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Mirror symmetry for moduli of flat bundles and non-abelian Hodge theory
10:45am

I will discuss a construction of the homological mirror correspondence on algebraic integrable systems arising as moduli of flat bundles on curves. The focus will be on non-abelian Hodge theory as a tool for implementing hyper Kaehler rotations of...

Apr
14
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Mirror symmetry for moduli of flat bundles and non-abelian Hodge theory
10:45am

I will discuss a construction of the homological mirror correspondence on algebraic integrable systems arising as moduli of flat bundles on curves. The focus will be on non-abelian Hodge theory as a tool for implementing hyper Kaehler rotations of...

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Organizational Meeting)

Homological Mirror Symmetry Mini-Workshop

Apr
07
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry Mini-Workshop

Two rigid algebras and a heat kernel
Amitai Zernik
10:00am

Consider the Fukaya A8 algebra $E$ of $RP^{2m}$ in $CP^{2m}$ (with bulk and equivariant deformations, over the Novikov ring). On the one hand, elementary algebraic considerations show that E admis a rigid cyclic minimal model, whose structure...

Apr
07
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry Mini-Workshop

Theta functions and quiver representations
Man Wai Cheung
11:15am

In the talk, we will discuss how to relate scattering diagram with quiver representations. Then we can see how the broken lines give a stratification of quiver Grassmannian. At the end, we will briefly discuss how we can fry to compute the structure...

Apr
07
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry Mini-Workshop

Symplectic Dehn twists from spherical manifolds
2:00pm

In this talk, we will discuss symplectomorphisms coming from Dehn twists along Lagrangian spherical manifolds. The main focus will be on the induced auto-equivalences of the Fukaya category. We will explain the auto-equivalence formula from several...

Homological Mirror Symmetry Reading Group