Collapsing Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Name: Collapsing Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Start: 2020-04-07T16:15:00-04:00
End: 2020-04-07T17:15:00-04:00
Location: Virtually

When: April 7, 2020

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Where: Virtually

Speaker: Valentino Tosatti - Northwestern University

via Zoom Video Conferencing: link TBA

I will report on some recent progress on the problem of understanding the collapsing behavior of Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on Calabi-Yau manifolds that admit a fibration structure, when the volume of the fibers shrinks to zero. Based on joint works with Gross-Zhang and with Hein.