What is Differential Geometry?

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "What is Differential Geometry?"

Transcription

1 What is Differential Geometry? Zhiqin Lu UCI, Recruitment Day April 3, 2009 Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 1/14

2 Triple integrals Compute W xdxdydz, where W is the region bounded by the planes x = 0, y = 0, and z = 2, and the surface z = x 2 + y 2 and lying in the quadrant x 0, y 0. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 2/14

3 II Triple integrals Compute W xdxdydz, where W is the region bounded by the planes x = 0, y = 0, and z = 2, and the surface z = x 2 + y 2 and lying in the quadrant x 0, y 0. N '<: IV N >< II II >< 0 N II ~ + ~ '<: Figure: From Vector Calculus, Marsden & Tromba Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 2/14

4 How to compute integrations over an n-dimensional object? Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 3/14

5 An example Zeros of a quintic polynomial: in C 5. Z Z Z Z Z Z 0 Z 1 Z 2 Z 3 Z 4 = 0 Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 4/14

6 Figure: From Wikipedia, the intersection of the quintic Calabi-Yau threefold to our three dimensional space Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 5/14

7 How to study high dimensional geometric object? Use Partial Differential Equations; Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 6/14

8 How to study high dimensional geometric object? Use Partial Differential Equations; Use Linear Algebra Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 6/14

9 How to study high dimensional geometric object? Use Partial Differential Equations; Use Linear Algebra Use Abstract Algebra Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 6/14

10 How to study high dimensional geometric object? Use Partial Differential Equations; Use Linear Algebra Use Abstract Algebra Use the results in all other math/physics fields. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 6/14

11 A simple example Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 7/14

12 A simple example 1 xdy ydx 2π x 2 + y 2 = 1. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 7/14

13 A non-trivial example How many holes in the quintic Calabi-Yau manifold? Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 8/14

14 In 1977, S. T. Yau was able to solve the following PDE g 1, u z 1 z 1 g 1, u z 1 z 2 g 1, u det g 2, u z 2 z 1 g 2, u z 2 z 2 g 2, u g 3, u z 3 z 1 g 3, u z 3 z 2 g 3, u g 1, 1 g 1, 2 g 1, 3 = e F det g 2, 1 g 2, 2 g 2, 3, g 3, 1 g 3, 2 g 3, 3 z 1 z 3 z 2 z 3 z 3 z 3 where g i j and F are given functions. After that, we are able to tell the topological properties of the manifold. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 9/14

15 Linear algebra Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 10/14

16 Linear algebra Hodge theory! Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 10/14

17 Conclusion: Differential Geometry is not a separate math field, it brought different fields like PDE, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, Lie group theory, functional analysis, and many others together. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 11/14

18 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

19 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

20 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

21 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

22 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Differential Geometry, Integrable systems Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

23 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Differential Geometry, Integrable systems Ronald J. Stern, Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

24 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Differential Geometry, Integrable systems Ronald J. Stern,Smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic contact topology and geometry, knot theory Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

25 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Differential Geometry, Integrable systems Ronald J. Stern,Smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic contact topology and geometry, knot theory Zhiqin Lu, Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

26 UCI s Geometry / Topology Group Peter Li, Geometric PDE, Analysis on manifolds; Chuu-Lian Terng, Differential Geometry, Integrable systems Ronald J. Stern,Smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic contact topology and geometry, knot theory Zhiqin Lu, complex geometry, Mirror symmetry. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 12/14

27 zlu/geom-topo-group/index.php Members of the Geometry & Topology Group at UCI work in many different fields and have expertise in a diverse set of techniques. We have lively and well-attended seminars, and one of our key goals is the cross-pollination of ideas between geometry and topology. Our faculty consists of active researchers in many areas of geometry and low-dimensional topology including geometric PDE, differential geometry, integrable systems, mirror symmetry, smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic and contact topology and geometry, and knot theory and its invariants. Our faculty is highly-regarded. All have NSF Grants and one of its members, Peter Li, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Geometry/Topology Group at UCI has a long-standing commitment to excellence in graduate and postdoctoral training: we have produced some outstanding graduate students, and we have been fortunate to have recruited and mentored exceptional postdoctoral fellows. Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 13/14

28 Welcome to UCI! Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine What is Geometry 14/14

Geometry of the Calabi-Yau Moduli

Geometry of the Calabi-Yau Moduli Geometry of the Calabi-Yau Moduli Zhiqin Lu 2012 AMS Hawaii Meeting Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697 March 4, 2012 Zhiqin Lu, Dept. Math, UCI Geometry of the Calabi-Yau Moduli 1/51

More information

On the BCOV Conjecture

On the BCOV Conjecture Department of Mathematics University of California, Irvine December 14, 2007 Mirror Symmetry The objects to study By Mirror Symmetry, for any CY threefold, there should be another CY threefold X, called

More information

Enumerative Geometry: from Classical to Modern

Enumerative Geometry: from Classical to Modern : from Classical to Modern February 28, 2008 Summary Classical enumerative geometry: examples Modern tools: Gromov-Witten invariants counts of holomorphic maps Insights from string theory: quantum cohomology:

More information

FROM HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS TO HOLOMORPHIC SECTIONS

FROM HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS TO HOLOMORPHIC SECTIONS FROM HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS TO HOLOMORPHIC SECTIONS ZHIQIN LU. Introduction It is a pleasure to have the opportunity in the graduate colloquium to introduce my research field. I am a differential geometer.

More information

Introduction Curves Surfaces Curves on surfaces. Curves and surfaces. Ragni Piene Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway

Introduction Curves Surfaces Curves on surfaces. Curves and surfaces. Ragni Piene Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway Curves and surfaces Ragni Piene Centre of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway What is algebraic geometry? IMA, April 13, 2007 Outline Introduction Curves Surfaces Curves on surfaces

More information

Eigenvalues of Collapsing Domains and Drift Laplacian

Eigenvalues of Collapsing Domains and Drift Laplacian Eigenvalues of Collapsing Domains and Drift Laplacian Zhiqin Lu Dedicate to Professor Peter Li on his 60th Birthday Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697 January 17, 2012 Zhiqin Lu, Dept.

More information

Hamid Hezari. Microlocal Analysis and its applications in PDE and Spectral Geometry

Hamid Hezari. Microlocal Analysis and its applications in PDE and Spectral Geometry Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics UC Irvine 510J Rowland Hall Irvine, CA 92697 Hamid Hezari Email: hezari@math.uci.edu Web: http://math.uci.edu/ hezari Research Interests Microlocal Analysis

More information

Mirror Symmetry: Introduction to the B Model

Mirror Symmetry: Introduction to the B Model Mirror Symmetry: Introduction to the B Model Kyler Siegel February 23, 2014 1 Introduction Recall that mirror symmetry predicts the existence of pairs X, ˇX of Calabi-Yau manifolds whose Hodge diamonds

More information

Arithmetic Mirror Symmetry

Arithmetic Mirror Symmetry Arithmetic Mirror Symmetry Daqing Wan April 15, 2005 Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3875

More information

GENERIC TORELLI THEOREM FOR QUINTIC-MIRROR FAMILY. Sampei Usui

GENERIC TORELLI THEOREM FOR QUINTIC-MIRROR FAMILY. Sampei Usui GENERIC TORELLI THEOREM FOR QUINTIC-MIRROR FAMILY Sampei Usui Abstract. This article is a geometric application of polarized logarithmic Hodge theory of Kazuya Kato and Sampei Usui. We prove generic Torelli

More information

M A T H E M A T I C S

M A T H E M A T I C S M A T H E M A T I C S Coursework Details (2018 19) Requirement : MPhil students: 2 compulsory + 3 elective courses; and PhD students: 2 compulsory + 4 elective courses (For students enrolled before January

More information

MATHEMATICS (COURSE 18)

MATHEMATICS (COURSE 18) MATHEMATICS (COURSE ) Department of (http://catalog.mit.edu/schools/ science/mathematics/#undergraduatetext) Bachelor of in (General Option) Students may substitute one of the more advanced subjects.5

More information

IV. Birational hyperkähler manifolds

IV. Birational hyperkähler manifolds Université de Nice March 28, 2008 Atiyah s example Atiyah s example f : X D family of K3 surfaces, smooth over D ; X smooth, X 0 has one node s. Atiyah s example f : X D family of K3 surfaces, smooth over

More information

Topics in Geometry: Mirror Symmetry

Topics in Geometry: Mirror Symmetry MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 18.969 Topics in Geometry: Mirror Symmetry Spring 2009 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms. MIRROR SYMMETRY:

More information

The geometry of Landau-Ginzburg models

The geometry of Landau-Ginzburg models Motivation Toric degeneration Hodge theory CY3s The Geometry of Landau-Ginzburg Models January 19, 2016 Motivation Toric degeneration Hodge theory CY3s Plan of talk 1. Landau-Ginzburg models and mirror

More information

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Department of Mathematics

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Department of Mathematics , Department of Mathematics Calendar of Events For the Week of November 10 th 14 th, 2014 MONDAY, 10 th 12:10-1:00PM, SURGE 268 2:10-3:00PM, SURGE 268 3:10-4:30PM, SURGE 268 TUESDAY, 11 th VETERANS DAY

More information

Curriculum Vitae WEIWEI WU

Curriculum Vitae WEIWEI WU Curriculum Vitae WEIWEI WU Oce Address: Michigan State University C303 Wells Hall 619 Red Cedar Street East Lansing, MI 48824 Email Address: wwwu@math.msu.edu Homepage: http://www.math.msu.edu/~wwwu Date

More information

Mirror symmetry for G 2 manifolds

Mirror symmetry for G 2 manifolds Mirror symmetry for G 2 manifolds based on [1602.03521] [1701.05202]+[1706.xxxxx] with Michele del Zotto (Stony Brook) 1 Strings, T-duality & Mirror Symmetry 2 Type II String Theories and T-duality Superstring

More information

James Dilts. Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego ccom.ucsd.edu/~jdilts

James Dilts. Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego ccom.ucsd.edu/~jdilts James Dilts Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego jdilts@ucsd.edu Appointments ccom.ucsd.edu/~jdilts Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer, UC: San Diego, July 2015 Present. Education

More information

EXAMPLES OF CALABI-YAU 3-MANIFOLDS WITH COMPLEX MULTIPLICATION

EXAMPLES OF CALABI-YAU 3-MANIFOLDS WITH COMPLEX MULTIPLICATION EXAMPLES OF CALABI-YAU 3-MANIFOLDS WITH COMPLEX MULTIPLICATION JAN CHRISTIAN ROHDE Introduction By string theoretical considerations one is interested in Calabi-Yau manifolds since Calabi-Yau 3-manifolds

More information

Hodge structures from differential equations

Hodge structures from differential equations Hodge structures from differential equations Andrew Harder January 4, 2017 These are notes on a talk on the paper Hodge structures from differential equations. The goal is to discuss the method of computation

More information

M A K I N G E X C E L L E N C E I N C L U S I V E

M A K I N G E X C E L L E N C E I N C L U S I V E MEI: M A K I N G E X C E L L E N C E I N C L U S I V E R E L I G I O U S D I V E R S I T Y I N T H E H I R I N G P R O C E S S : P R O M I S I N G P R A C T I C E S F O R R E C R U I T I N G D I V E R

More information

Overview of classical mirror symmetry

Overview of classical mirror symmetry Overview of classical mirror symmetry David Cox (notes by Paul Hacking) 9/8/09 () Physics (2) Quintic 3-fold (3) Math String theory is a N = 2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) which models elementary

More information

Handbook of Geometric Analysis, No. 2

Handbook of Geometric Analysis, No. 2 Advanced Lectures in Mathematics Volume XIII Handbook of Geometric Analysis, No. 2 Editors: Lizhen Ji, Peter Li, Richard Schoen, and Leon Simon International Press www.intlpress.com 高等教育出版社 HIGHER EDUCATION

More information

Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system I

Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system I Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and the Hitchin system I Tamás Hausel Royal Society URF at University of Oxford http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/ hausel/talks.html April 200 Simons lecture series Stony Brook

More information

Part A: Frontier Talks. Some Mathematical Problems on the Thin Film Equations

Part A: Frontier Talks. Some Mathematical Problems on the Thin Film Equations Title and Part A: Frontier Talks Some Mathematical Problems on the Thin Film Equations Kai-Seng Chou The Chinese University of Hong Kong The thin film equation, which is derived from the Navier-Stokes

More information

Enumerative Invariants in Algebraic Geometry and String Theory

Enumerative Invariants in Algebraic Geometry and String Theory Dan Abramovich -. Marcos Marino Michael Thaddeus Ravi Vakil Enumerative Invariants in Algebraic Geometry and String Theory Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy June 6-11,

More information

Refined Donaldson-Thomas theory and Nekrasov s formula

Refined Donaldson-Thomas theory and Nekrasov s formula Refined Donaldson-Thomas theory and Nekrasov s formula Balázs Szendrői, University of Oxford Maths of String and Gauge Theory, City University and King s College London 3-5 May 2012 Geometric engineering

More information

Harvard University NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, 2016 Mentor: Michael Hopkins

Harvard University NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, 2016 Mentor: Michael Hopkins Ben Knudsen Contact information Department of Mathematics 1 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138 knudsen@math.harvard.edu scholar.harvard.edu/knudsen Employment Education NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor,

More information

Gauge Theory and Mirror Symmetry

Gauge Theory and Mirror Symmetry Gauge Theory and Mirror Symmetry Constantin Teleman UC Berkeley ICM 2014, Seoul C. Teleman (Berkeley) Gauge theory, Mirror symmetry ICM Seoul, 2014 1 / 14 Character space for SO(3) and Toda foliation Support

More information

arxiv:dg-ga/ v2 7 Feb 1997

arxiv:dg-ga/ v2 7 Feb 1997 A FAKE SMOOTH CP 2 #RP 4 DANIEL RUBERMAN AND RONALD J. STERN arxiv:dg-ga/9702003v2 7 Feb 1997 Abstract. We show that the manifold RP 4 # CP 2, which is homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic to RP 4

More information

Cubic curves: a short survey

Cubic curves: a short survey ICAMMP 4 4-7 January 5 SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh Cubic curves: a short survey Balázs Szendrői Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands szendroi@math.uu.nl http://www.math.uu.nl/people/szendroi

More information

Mark Gerard Walsh. Curriculum Vitae

Mark Gerard Walsh. Curriculum Vitae Walsh, Mark Gerard/Curriculum Vitae/2012-02-27 Mark Gerard Walsh Curriculum Vitae Kidder Hall 362 Corvallis OR 97333 USA walsmark@math.oregonstate.edu Citizenship: Ireland Visa: US Permanent Resident (971)

More information

A complex geometric proof of Tian-Yau-Zelditch expansion

A complex geometric proof of Tian-Yau-Zelditch expansion A complex geometric proof of Tian-Yau-Zelditch expansion Zhiqin Lu Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697 October 21, 2010 Zhiqin Lu, Dept. Math, UCI A complex geometric proof of TYZ expansion

More information

QUANTIZATION OF SPECTRAL CURVES FOR MEROMORPHIC HIGGS BUNDLES THROUGH TOPOLOGICAL RECURSION OLIVIA DUMITRESCU AND MOTOHICO MULASE

QUANTIZATION OF SPECTRAL CURVES FOR MEROMORPHIC HIGGS BUNDLES THROUGH TOPOLOGICAL RECURSION OLIVIA DUMITRESCU AND MOTOHICO MULASE QUANTIZATION OF SPECTRAL CURVES FOR MEROMORPHIC HIGGS BUNDLES THROUGH TOPOLOGICAL RECURSION OLIVIA DUMITRESCU AND MOTOHICO MULASE Abstract. A geometric quantization using a partial differential equation

More information

5.1 Polynomial Functions

5.1 Polynomial Functions 5.1 Polynomial Functions In this section, we will study the following topics: Identifying polynomial functions and their degree Determining end behavior of polynomial graphs Finding real zeros of polynomial

More information

Polynomials in knot theory. Rama Mishra. January 10, 2012

Polynomials in knot theory. Rama Mishra. January 10, 2012 January 10, 2012 Knots in the real world The fact that you can tie your shoelaces in several ways has inspired mathematicians to develop a deep subject known as knot theory. mathematicians treat knots

More information

BINARY ASTEROID PAIRS A Systematic Investigation of the Full Two-Body Problem

BINARY ASTEROID PAIRS A Systematic Investigation of the Full Two-Body Problem BINARY ASTEROID PAIRS A Systematic Investigation of the Full Two-Body Problem Michael Priolo Jerry Marsden, Ph.D., Mentor Shane Ross, Graduate Student, Co-Mentor Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81 Caltech,

More information

A LITTLE TASTE OF SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY: THE SCHUR-HORN THEOREM CONTENTS

A LITTLE TASTE OF SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY: THE SCHUR-HORN THEOREM CONTENTS A LITTLE TASTE OF SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY: THE SCHUR-HORN THEOREM TIMOTHY E. GOLDBERG ABSTRACT. This is a handout for a talk given at Bard College on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 by the author. It gives careful versions

More information

On the Virtual Fundamental Class

On the Virtual Fundamental Class On the Virtual Fundamental Class Kai Behrend The University of British Columbia Seoul, August 14, 2014 http://www.math.ubc.ca/~behrend/talks/seoul14.pdf Overview Donaldson-Thomas theory: counting invariants

More information

Generalized Tian-Todorov theorems

Generalized Tian-Todorov theorems Generalized Tian-Todorov theorems M.Kontsevich 1 The classical Tian-Todorov theorem Recall the classical Tian-Todorov theorem (see [4],[5]) about the smoothness of the moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau manifolds:

More information

HMS Seminar - Talk 1. Netanel Blaier (Brandeis) September 26, 2016

HMS Seminar - Talk 1. Netanel Blaier (Brandeis) September 26, 2016 HMS Seminar - Talk 1 Netanel Blaier (Brandeis) September 26, 2016 Overview Fukaya categories : (naive) Lagrangian Floer homology, A -structures Introduction : what is mirror symmetry? The physical story

More information

RESEARCH STATEMENT FEI XU

RESEARCH STATEMENT FEI XU RESEARCH STATEMENT FEI XU. Introduction Recall that a variety is said to be rational if it is birational to P n. For many years, mathematicians have worked on the rationality of smooth complete intersections,

More information

CURRICULUM VITAE. Di Yang. Date of Birth: Feb. 8, 1986 Nationality: P. R. China

CURRICULUM VITAE. Di Yang. Date of Birth: Feb. 8, 1986 Nationality: P. R. China CURRICULUM VITAE Di Yang PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Di Family Name: Yang Date of Birth: Feb. 8, 1986 Nationality: P. R. China Address: MPIM, Vivatsgasse 7, Bonn 53111, Germany Phone Number: +49-15163351572

More information

Knots and Mirror Symmetry. Mina Aganagic UC Berkeley

Knots and Mirror Symmetry. Mina Aganagic UC Berkeley Knots and Mirror Symmetry Mina Aganagic UC Berkeley 1 Quantum physics has played a central role in answering the basic question in knot theory: When are two knots distinct? 2 Witten explained in 88, that

More information

HS - Hamiltonian Systems

HS - Hamiltonian Systems Coordinating unit: Teaching unit: Academic year: Degree: ECTS credits: 2018 200 - FME - School of Mathematics and Statistics 749 - MAT - Department of Mathematics MASTER'S DEGREE IN ADVANCED MATHEMATICS

More information

String-Theory: Open-closed String Moduli Spaces

String-Theory: Open-closed String Moduli Spaces String-Theory: Open-closed String Moduli Spaces Heidelberg, 13.10.2014 History of the Universe particular: Epoch of cosmic inflation in the early Universe Inflation and Inflaton φ, potential V (φ) Possible

More information

Counting curves on a surface

Counting curves on a surface Counting curves on a surface Ragni Piene Centre of Mathematics for Applications and Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo University of Pennsylvania, May 6, 2005 Enumerative geometry Specialization

More information

New Mathematics and Computer Science, B.S. Degree.

New Mathematics and Computer Science, B.S. Degree. New Mathematics and Computer Science, B.S. Degree. List of requirements: Math 1041 (4 cr.) Calculus I Math 1042 (4 cr.) Calculus II Math 2043 (4 cr.) Calculus III Math 2101 (3 cr.) Linear Algebra Math

More information

B.S. in Mathematics and Its Application, Beijing Normal University, 2004.

B.S. in Mathematics and Its Application, Beijing Normal University, 2004. Bin Zhou School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 Phone: Mobile: Email: bzhou@pku.edu.cn PERSONAL DATA Male Born August 14, 1982, Jiangxi, China Chinese Citizen Married EDUCATION

More information

Looking Beyond Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds. Work in progress with Hans Jockers, Joshua M. Lapan, Maurico Romo and David R.

Looking Beyond Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds. Work in progress with Hans Jockers, Joshua M. Lapan, Maurico Romo and David R. Looking Beyond Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds Work in progress with Hans Jockers, Joshua M. Lapan, Maurico Romo and David R. Morrison Who and Why Def: X is Calabi-Yau (CY) if X is a Ricci-flat,

More information

DIMENSION 4: GETTING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

DIMENSION 4: GETTING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING DIMENSION 4: GETTING SOMETHING FROM NOTHING RON STERN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE MAY 6, 21 JOINT WORK WITH RON FINTUSHEL Topological n-manifold: locally homeomorphic to R n TOPOLOGICAL VS. SMOOTH

More information

Congruence sheaves and congruence differential equations Beyond hypergeometric functions

Congruence sheaves and congruence differential equations Beyond hypergeometric functions Congruence sheaves and congruence differential equations Beyond hypergeometric functions Vasily Golyshev Lille, March 6, 204 / 45 Plan of talk Report on joint work in progress with Anton Mellit and Duco

More information

KODAIRA DIMENSION OF LEFSCHETZ FIBRATIONS OVER TORI

KODAIRA DIMENSION OF LEFSCHETZ FIBRATIONS OVER TORI KODAIRA DIMENSION OF LEFSCHETZ FIBRATIONS OVER TORI JOSEF G. DORFMEISTER Abstract. The Kodaira dimension for Lefschetz fibrations was defined in [1]. In this note we show that there exists no Lefschetz

More information

Pietro Fre' SISSA-Trieste. Paolo Soriani University degli Studi di Milano. From Calabi-Yau manifolds to topological field theories

Pietro Fre' SISSA-Trieste. Paolo Soriani University degli Studi di Milano. From Calabi-Yau manifolds to topological field theories From Calabi-Yau manifolds to topological field theories Pietro Fre' SISSA-Trieste Paolo Soriani University degli Studi di Milano World Scientific Singapore New Jersey London Hong Kong CONTENTS 1 AN INTRODUCTION

More information

University of Michigan, Tel.: (734) Department of Mathematics 5834 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI , USA

University of Michigan, Tel.: (734) Department of Mathematics 5834 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI , USA Zaher Hani Contact Information Research Interests Employment University of Michigan, Tel.: (734) 764 0325 Department of Mathematics E-mail: zhani@umich.edu 5834 East Hall 530 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI

More information

GABRIELA JARAMILLO EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION. Assistant Professor, University of Houston, TX

GABRIELA JARAMILLO EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION. Assistant Professor, University of Houston, TX GABRIELA JARAMILLO ADDRESS Department of Mathematics University of Houston 3551 Cullen Blvd. Room 641 Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall Houston, TX 77204 CONTACT INFORMATION email: gabriela@math.uh.edu website:

More information

DISTINGUISHING EMBEDDED CURVES IN RATIONAL COMPLEX SURFACES

DISTINGUISHING EMBEDDED CURVES IN RATIONAL COMPLEX SURFACES PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 16, Number 1, January 1998, Pages 305 310 S 000-9939(98)04001-5 DISTINGUISHING EMBEDDED CURVES IN RATIONAL COMPLEX SURFACES TERRY FULLER (Communicated

More information

Generalized complex geometry and topological sigma-models

Generalized complex geometry and topological sigma-models Generalized complex geometry and topological sigma-models Anton Kapustin California Institute of Technology Generalized complex geometry and topological sigma-models p. 1/3 Outline Review of N = 2 sigma-models

More information

CURRICULUM VITAE. Christian Wolf Department of Mathematics Wichita State University. Wichita, KS Citizenship: Germany, Permanent Resident: USA

CURRICULUM VITAE. Christian Wolf Department of Mathematics Wichita State University. Wichita, KS Citizenship: Germany, Permanent Resident: USA CURRICULUM VITAE Christian Wolf Department of Mathematics Wichita State University Wichita, KS 67260 Citizenship: Germany, Permanent Resident: USA e mail: cwolf@math.wichita.edu Phone #: Office: 316 978

More information

SMSTC Geometry and Topology

SMSTC Geometry and Topology SMSTC Geometry and Topology 2013-2014 1 Andrew Ranicki http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ aar SMSTC Symposium Perth, 9th October, 2013 http://www.smstc.ac.uk http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ aar/smstc/gt34info.pdf http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/

More information

Curriculum Vitae. Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA

Curriculum Vitae. Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA Personal Information Official Name: Transliteration used in papers: Mailing Address: E-mail: Semen Artamonov Semeon Arthamonov Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

More information

Walter M. Rusin Curriculum Vitae (October 2015)

Walter M. Rusin Curriculum Vitae (October 2015) (October 2015) Address: Oklahoma State University Department of Mathematics Stillwater, OK 74078 Office phone: (405) 744-5847 Mobile phone: (612) 245-3813 E-Mail: walter.rusin@okstate.edu Citizenship:

More information

CURRICULUM VITAE PhD in Mathematics, Columbia University Thesis: Quantum Algebras and Cyclic Quiver Varieties

CURRICULUM VITAE PhD in Mathematics, Columbia University Thesis: Quantum Algebras and Cyclic Quiver Varieties CURRICULUM VITAE Education and Employment: 2015 - ongoing Assistant Professor, MIT (tenure-track) 2012-2015 PhD in Mathematics, Columbia University Thesis: Quantum Algebras and Cyclic Quiver Varieties

More information

The Work of Caucher Birkar. Allyn Jackson

The Work of Caucher Birkar. Allyn Jackson The Work of Caucher Birkar Allyn Jackson Caucher Birkar is a mathematician of great originality and depth. His research area, algebraic geometry, addresses fundamental questions about the nature of abstract

More information

Surveys in Differential Geometry

Surveys in Differential Geometry Surveys in Differential Geometry Vol. 1: Lectures given in 1990 and H. Blaine Lawson Vol. 2: Lectures given in 1993 edited by C.C. Hsiung and S.-T. Yau Vol. 3: Lectures given in 1996 edited by C.C. Hsiung

More information

Two simple ideas from calculus applied to Riemannian geometry

Two simple ideas from calculus applied to Riemannian geometry Calibrated Geometries and Special Holonomy p. 1/29 Two simple ideas from calculus applied to Riemannian geometry Spiro Karigiannis karigiannis@math.uwaterloo.ca Department of Pure Mathematics, University

More information

Non-Kähler Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Non-Kähler Calabi-Yau Manifolds Non-Kähler Calabi-Yau Manifolds Shing-Tung Yau Harvard University String-Math 2011 University of Pennsylvania June 6, 2011 String and math have had a very close interaction over the past thirty years.

More information

F-theory effective physics via M-theory. Thomas W. Grimm!! Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)! Munich

F-theory effective physics via M-theory. Thomas W. Grimm!! Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)! Munich F-theory effective physics via M-theory Thomas W. Grimm Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) Munich Ahrenshoop conference, July 2014 1 Introduction In recent years there has been

More information

Homological Mirror Symmetry and VGIT

Homological Mirror Symmetry and VGIT Homological Mirror Symmetry and VGIT University of Vienna January 24, 2013 Attributions Based on joint work with M. Ballard (U. Wisconsin) and Ludmil Katzarkov (U. Miami and U. Vienna). Slides available

More information

Fiberwise stable bundles on elliptic threefolds with relative Picard number one

Fiberwise stable bundles on elliptic threefolds with relative Picard number one Géométrie algébrique/algebraic Geometry Fiberwise stable bundles on elliptic threefolds with relative Picard number one Andrei CĂLDĂRARU Mathematics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

More information

Calabi-Yau Fourfolds with non-trivial Three-Form Cohomology

Calabi-Yau Fourfolds with non-trivial Three-Form Cohomology Calabi-Yau Fourfolds with non-trivial Three-Form Cohomology Sebastian Greiner arxiv: 1512.04859, 1702.03217 (T. Grimm, SG) Max-Planck-Institut für Physik and ITP Utrecht String Pheno 2017 Sebastian Greiner

More information

Mirror symmetry. Mark Gross. July 24, University of Cambridge

Mirror symmetry. Mark Gross. July 24, University of Cambridge University of Cambridge July 24, 2015 : A very brief and biased history. A search for examples of compact Calabi-Yau three-folds by Candelas, Lynker and Schimmrigk (1990) as crepant resolutions of hypersurfaces

More information

Computational Geometric Uncertainty Propagation for Hamiltonian Systems on a Lie Group

Computational Geometric Uncertainty Propagation for Hamiltonian Systems on a Lie Group Computational Geometric Uncertainty Propagation for Hamiltonian Systems on a Lie Group Melvin Leok Mathematics, University of California, San Diego Foundations of Dynamics Session, CDS@20 Workshop Caltech,

More information

MATHEMATICS (MATH) Mathematics (MATH) 1 MATH AP/OTH CREDIT CALCULUS II MATH SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I

MATHEMATICS (MATH) Mathematics (MATH) 1 MATH AP/OTH CREDIT CALCULUS II MATH SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I Mathematics (MATH) 1 MATHEMATICS (MATH) MATH 101 - SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I Short Title: SINGLE VARIABLE CALCULUS I Description: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, and the Fundamental

More information

M30-1: Polynomial, Radical and Rational Functions, Graphs and Equations Exam /20

M30-1: Polynomial, Radical and Rational Functions, Graphs and Equations Exam /20 Class: Date: ID: A M30-1: Polynomial, Radical and Rational Functions, Graphs and Equations Exam /20 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Which

More information

K-stability and Kähler metrics, I

K-stability and Kähler metrics, I K-stability and Kähler metrics, I Gang Tian Beijing University and Princeton University Let M be a Kähler manifold. This means that M be a complex manifold together with a Kähler metric ω. In local coordinates

More information

Hiroshi Uyama. Osaka University, Japan

Hiroshi Uyama. Osaka University, Japan 2014 IUPAC World Polymer Congress (Macro2014) Chingmai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (Thailand) July 9, 2014 Hiroshi Uyama Osaka University, Japan uyama@chem.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp Osaka University

More information

Discrete Differential Geometry. Peter Schröder with help from Eitan Grinspun, Mathieu Desbrun and the rest of the DDG crew.

Discrete Differential Geometry. Peter Schröder with help from Eitan Grinspun, Mathieu Desbrun and the rest of the DDG crew. Discrete Differential Geometry Peter Schröder with help from Eitan Grinspun, Mathieu Desbrun and the rest of the DDG crew ps@cs.caltech.edu A Bit of History Geometry is the key! studied for centuries Hermann

More information

300-Level Math Courses

300-Level Math Courses 300-Level Math Courses Math 250: Elementary Differential Equations A differential equation is an equation relating an unknown function to one or more of its derivatives; for instance, f = f is a differential

More information

A brief Incursion into Knot Theory. Trinity University

A brief Incursion into Knot Theory. Trinity University A brief Incursion into Knot Theory Eduardo Balreira Trinity University Mathematics Department Major Seminar, Fall 2008 (Balreira - Trinity University) Knot Theory Major Seminar 1 / 31 Outline 1 A Fundamental

More information

Remarks on hypersurface K-stability. Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson

Remarks on hypersurface K-stability. Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson Remarks on hypersurface K-stability Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine Complex Geometry: A Conference Honoring Simon Donaldson October 26, 2009 Zhiqin Lu, UC. Irvine Hypersurface K-stability 1/42 The Result Theorem

More information

COUNT OF GENUS ZERO J-HOLOMORPHIC CURVES IN DIMENSIONS FOUR AND SIX arxiv: v5 [math.sg] 17 May 2013

COUNT OF GENUS ZERO J-HOLOMORPHIC CURVES IN DIMENSIONS FOUR AND SIX arxiv: v5 [math.sg] 17 May 2013 COUNT OF GENUS ZERO J-HOLOMORPHIC CURVES IN DIMENSIONS FOUR AND SIX arxiv:0906.5472v5 [math.sg] 17 May 2013 AHMET BEYAZ Abstract. In this note, genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants are reviewed and then

More information

Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Differential Geometry in Mathema

Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Differential Geometry in Mathema Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Differential Geometry in Mathematical History The Borough of Manhattan Community College -The City University of New York Fall 2016 Meeting of the Americas Section

More information

Complex manifolds, Kahler metrics, differential and harmonic forms

Complex manifolds, Kahler metrics, differential and harmonic forms Complex manifolds, Kahler metrics, differential and harmonic forms Cattani June 16, 2010 1 Lecture 1 Definition 1.1 (Complex Manifold). A complex manifold is a manifold with coordinates holomorphic on

More information

Complex Bordism and Cobordism Applications

Complex Bordism and Cobordism Applications Complex Bordism and Cobordism Applications V. M. Buchstaber Mini-course in Fudan University, April-May 2017 Main goals: --- To describe the main notions and constructions of bordism and cobordism; ---

More information

1 Examples of Weak Induction

1 Examples of Weak Induction More About Mathematical Induction Mathematical induction is designed for proving that a statement holds for all nonnegative integers (or integers beyond an initial one). Here are some extra examples of

More information

Useful theorems in complex geometry

Useful theorems in complex geometry Useful theorems in complex geometry Diego Matessi April 30, 2003 Abstract This is a list of main theorems in complex geometry that I will use throughout the course on Calabi-Yau manifolds and Mirror Symmetry.

More information

Mathematical Results Inspired by Physics

Mathematical Results Inspired by Physics ICM 2002 Vol. III 1 3 Mathematical Results Inspired by Physics Kefeng Liu Abstract I will discuss results of three different types in geometry and topology. (1) General vanishing and rigidity theorems

More information

GAUGED LINEAR SIGMA MODEL SPACES

GAUGED LINEAR SIGMA MODEL SPACES GAUGED LINEAR SIGMA MODEL SPACES FELIPE CASTELLANO-MACIAS ADVISOR: FELIX JANDA Abstract. The gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) originated in physics but it has recently made it into mathematics as an enumerative

More information

GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018

GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018 GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018 Math 5043: Introduction to Numerical Analysis MW 9:00 10:20 Prof. D. Szyld During the first semester of this course, the student is introduced to basic concepts

More information

Gromov-Witten invariants and Algebraic Geometry (II) Jun Li

Gromov-Witten invariants and Algebraic Geometry (II) Jun Li Gromov-Witten invariants and Algebraic Geometry (II) Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences and Stanford University GW invariants of quintic Calabi-Yau threefolds Quintic Calabi-Yau threefolds: X =

More information

Contact pairs (bicontact manifolds)

Contact pairs (bicontact manifolds) Contact pairs (bicontact manifolds) Gianluca Bande Università degli Studi di Cagliari XVII Geometrical Seminar, Zlatibor 6 September 2012 G. Bande (Università di Cagliari) Contact pairs (bicontact manifolds)

More information

Surveys in Differential Geometry

Surveys in Differential Geometry Surveys in Differential Geometry Vol. 1: Lectures given in 1990 and H. Blaine Lawson Vol. 2: Lectures given in 1993 edited by C.C. Hsiung and S.-T. Yau Vol. 3: Lectures given in 1996 edited by C.C. Hsiung

More information

Member, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, June July Concurrently/supported by Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.

Member, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, June July Concurrently/supported by Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. Dept of Mathematical Sciences Wilson Hall 2-214 Bozeman, MT 59715 Email: ryan.grady1@montana.edu RYAN E GRADY Employment Assistant Professor,, Bozeman, Montana. August 2016-present. Postdoctoral Fellow,

More information

Classifying complex surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds

Classifying complex surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds Classifying complex surfaces and symplectic 4-manifolds UT Austin, September 18, 2012 First Cut Seminar Basics Symplectic 4-manifolds Definition A symplectic 4-manifold (X, ω) is an oriented, smooth, 4-dimensional

More information

Topological Quantum Field Theory in two dimensions. Daniel Murfet

Topological Quantum Field Theory in two dimensions. Daniel Murfet = = Topological Quantum Field Theory in two dimensions Daniel Murfet = = = Q1: What is a TQFT? Q2: Why do physicists care about TQFT? Q3: Why do mathematicians care about TQFT? Atiyah Topological quantum

More information

BERGMAN KERNEL ON COMPACT KÄHLER MANIFOLDS

BERGMAN KERNEL ON COMPACT KÄHLER MANIFOLDS BERGMAN KERNEL ON COMPACT KÄHLER MANIFOLDS SHOO SETO Abstract. These are the notes to an expository talk I plan to give at MGSC on Kähler Geometry aimed for beginning graduate students in hopes to motivate

More information

Curve counting and generating functions

Curve counting and generating functions Curve counting and generating functions Ragni Piene Università di Roma Tor Vergata February 26, 2010 Count partitions Let n be an integer. How many ways can you write n as a sum of two positive integers?

More information

MATH 52 MIDTERM 1. April 23, 2004

MATH 52 MIDTERM 1. April 23, 2004 MATH 5 MIDTERM April 3, Student ID: Signature: Instructions: Print your name and student ID number and write your signature to indicate that you accept the honor code. During the test, you may not use

More information