During the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on Algebraic Geometry in String Theory, organized by Chuck Doran and Iacopo Brivio. During Spring 2024, this seminar will take place on Thursdays from 10:30–11:30 am (Eastern Time). There will be a pre-seminar from 10:00–10:30 am. The meetings will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, and some meetings will take place virtually on Zoom or be held in hybrid formats. To join the Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Listserv, please visit this LINK.
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: David Wu (Harvard Physics): 10:00-10:30 am Speaker: Damian van de Heisteeg, CMSA Title: Species Scale across String Moduli Spaces Abstract: String theories feature […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: Kai Xu (CMSA): 10:00-10:30 am Speaker: Kai Xu (CMSA) Title: Motivic decomposition of moduli space from brane dynamics Abstract: Supersymmetric gauge theories […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Pre-talk Speaker: Rosie Shen (Harvard): 10:00-10:30 am Pre-talk Title: Introduction to the singularities of the MMP Speaker: Dori Bejleri (Harvard Math & CMSA) Title: […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: David Favero, University of Minnesota Title: Gauged Linear Sigma Models and Cohomological Field Theories Abstract: This talk is dedicated to the memory of […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: An Huang (Brandeis) Pre-talk Speaker: TBA: 10:00-10:30 am Title: A p-adic Laplacian on the Tate curve Abstract: We shall first explain the relation […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Thorsten Schimannek (Utrecht University) Title: M-theory on nodal Calabi-Yau 3-folds and torsion refined GV-invariants Abstract: The physics of M-theory and Type IIA strings […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Max Weinreich (Harvard) Title: Algebraic billiards and dynamical degrees Abstract: Billiards is one of the most-studied dynamical systems, modeling the behavior of a point […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Iacopo Brivio (Harvard CMSA) Title: On (semi)stable reduction and KSBA moduli in positive characteristic Abstract: The moduli space M_g of genus g stable curves […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Yan Zhou, Northeastern Title: Geometric origins of values of the Riemann Zeta functions at positive integers Abstract: Given a Fano manifold, Iritani proposed that […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Brian Lehmann (Boston College) Title: Classifying curves on Fano varieties Abstract: How can we understand the set of curves on a Fano variety? One perspective […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Jesse Huang, University of Alberta Title: Geometric construction of toric NCRs Abstract: The Rouquier dimension of a toric variety is recently shown to be […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Pierrick Bousseau, University of Georgia Title: The KSBA moduli space of log Calabi-Yau surfaces Abstract: The KSBA moduli space, introduced by Kollár--Shepherd-Barron, and Alexeev, […]