On Wednesday September 9, CMSA director Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave a lecture for the Simons foundation on “Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry.“

In this lecture, Prof. Yau surveys the existence of canonical balanced metrics on non-Kähler complex manifolds through the Hull-Strominger system, which was motivated by string theory on compactifications. He discusses works by Jun Li of Fudan University in Shanghai, Ji-Xiang Fu of Fudan University, Ivan Smith of the University of Cambridge, Richard P. Thomas of Imperial College London, Tristan C. Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, French mathematician Émile Picard, Teng Fei of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, Adam Jacob of the University of California, Davis, and Duong H. Phong of Columbia University.

More information about this talk can be found on the Simons Foundation website.