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 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, […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg, University of Maryland Title: Derived categories of genus one curves and torsors over abelian varieties Abstract: Studying orientifold string theories on elliptic curves […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Alan Thompson (Loughborough University) Title: Mirror symmetry for fibrations and degenerations of K3 surfaces Abstract: In 2016, Doran, Harder, and I conjectured a mirror […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Aaron Landesman, MIT Title: Geometric local systems on very general curves Abstract: What is the smallest genus h of a non-isotrivial curve over the […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Alessandro Chiodo, IMJ-Paris Rive Gauche (Jussieu) Title: The logarithmic double ramification locus Abstract: Given a family of smooth curves C -> S with a line […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Eric Pichon-Pharabod, Universite Paris-Saclay Title: Computing periods of hypersurfaces and elliptic surfaces via effective homology Abstract: The period matrix of a smooth complex projective […]
Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar Speaker: Franco Rota, University of Glasgow Title: Mirror symmetry and log del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: The homological mirror symmetry conjecture predicts a duality, expressed in terms of categorical […]