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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Conference on Tropical Geometry and Mirror Symmetry

Yongbin Ruan

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence

Abstract:

A far reaching correspondence from physics suggests that the Gromov-Witten theory of a Calabi-Yau hypersurface of weight projective space (more generally a toric variety) can be computed by the singularity theory of its defining polynomial. In this talk, I will present some of works (jointly with Alessandro Chiodo) towards establishing this correspondence mathematically as well as some of surprises and speculations.\\ Talk time runs to 10:30 AM.

February 13, 2010

8:30 AM

AP&M 6402

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