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CMSA EVENTS: CMSA ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY IN STRING THEORY SEMINAR
When: October 21, 2022
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10
Address:
20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Nicolo Piazzalunga - Rutgers University
I’ll introduce the higher-rank Donaldson–Thomas theory for toric Calabi–Yau threefolds, within the setting of equivariant K-theory. I’ll present a factorization conjecture motivated by Physics. As a byproduct, I’ll discuss some novel properties of equivariant volumes, as well as their generalizations to the genus-zero Gromov–Witten theory of non-compact toric varieties.
This event will be held in person and on Zoom. For more information on how to join the Zoom, please see: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event_category/algebraic-geometry-in-string-theory/