Complete Calabi-Yau Metrics and Optimal Transport

Name: Complete Calabi-Yau Metrics and Optimal Transport
Start: 2026-01-29T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-29T14:30:00-05:00
Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar

When: January 29, 2026

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Tristan Collins (UToronto)

I will discuss the connection between optimal transport and the existence of complete Calabi-Yau metrics on log Calabi-Yau varieties. I will explain how the geometric problem of constructing complete Calabi-Yau metrics gives rise to problems in the boundary regularity theory for optimal transport, and how ideas from geometry can be used to make progress on some of these problems. This talk will survey joint works with Li, Tong, Tong-Yau, Firester, and Tong-Firester.

Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97952922247?pwd=PMJqfJoalYI19S0z1RgDme2dNQeEiS.1
Password / Meeting ID: 868088 / 979 5292 2247