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| − | The seminar will be held in room B901 of Van Vleck Hall on Fridays from 1:20pm - 2:10pm
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| − | |September 10
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Yong-Geun Oh] (UW Madison)
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| − | |[[#Yong-Geun Oh (UW Madison)|
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| − | ''Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants'']]
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| − | |local
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| − | |September 17
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| − | |Leva Buhovsky (U of Chicago)
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| − | |[[#Leva Buhovsky (U of Chicago)|
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| − | ''On the uniqueness of Hofer's geometry'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Yong-Geun]
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| − | |September 24
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| − | |[http://sites.google.com/site/polterov/home/ Leonid Polterovich] (Tel Aviv U and U of Chicago)
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| − | |[[#Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv U and U of Chicago)|
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| − | ''Poisson brackets and symplectic invariants'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Yong-Geun]
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| − | |October 8
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stpaul/ Sean Paul] (UW Madison)
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| − | |[[#Sean Paul (UW Madison)|
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| − | ''Canonical Kahler metrics and the stability of projective varieties'']]
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| − | |local
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| − | |October 15
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| − | |Conan Leung (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
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| − | |[[#Conan Leung (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)|
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| − | ''SYZ mirror symmetry for toric manifolds'']]
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| − | |Honorary fellow, local
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| − | |October 22
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| − | |[http://www.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/~banagl/ Markus Banagl] (U. Heidelberg)
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| − | |[[# Markus Banagl (U. Heidelberg)|
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| − | ''Intersection Space Methods and Their Application to Equivariant Cohomology, String Theory, and Mirror Symmetry'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~maxim/ Maxim]
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| − | |October 29
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| − | |[http://www.math.umn.edu/~zhux0086/ Ke Zhu] (U of Minnesota)
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| − | |[[#Ke Zhu (U of Minnesota)|
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| − | ''Thick-thin decomposition of Floer trajectories and adiabatic gluing'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Yong-Geun]
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| − | |November 5
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| − | |[http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/ Sergei Tabachnikov] (Penn State)
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| − | |[[#Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State)|
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| − | ''Algebra, geometry, and dynamics of the pentagram map'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~maribeff/ Gloria]
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| − | |November 19
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| − | |Ma Chit (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
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| − | |[[#Ma Chit (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)|
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| − | ''A growth estimate of lattice points in Gorenstein cones using toric Einstein metrics'']]
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| − | |Graduate student, local
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| − | |December 3
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| − | |[http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~zaslow/ Eric Zaslow] (Northwestern University)
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| − | |[[#Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)|
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| − | ''Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Yong-Geun and Conan Leung]
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| − | |December 10
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| − | |Wenxuan Lu (MIT)
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| − | |[[#Wenxuan Lu (MIT)|
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| − | ''Instanton Correction, Wall Crossing And Mirror Symmetry Of Hitchin's Moduli
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| − | Spaces'']]
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| − | |[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~oh/ Young-Geun and Conan Leung]
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| − | ==Fall 2010==
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| − | ===Yong-Geun Oh (UW Madison)===
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| − | ''Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants''
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| − | Gopakumar-Vafa BPS invariant is some integer counting invariant of the cohomology
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| − | of D-brane moduli spaces in string theory. In relation to the Gromov-Witten theory,
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| − | it is expected that the invariant would coincide with the `number' of embedded
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| − | (pseudo)holomorphic curves (Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture). In this talk, we will explain the speaker's recent
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| − | result that the latter integer invariants can be defined for a generic choice of
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| − | compatible almost complex structures. We will also discuss the corresponding
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| − | wall-crossing phenomena and some open questions towards a complete solution to
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| − | the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture.
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| − | ===Leva Buhovsky (U of Chicago)===
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| − | ''On the uniqueness of Hofer's geometry''
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| − | In this talk we address the question whether Hofer's metric is unique among the Finsler-type bi-invariant metrics on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. The talk is based on a recent joint work with Yaron Ostrover.
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| − | ===Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv U and U of Chicago)===
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| − | ''Poisson brackets and symplectic invariants''
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| − | We discuss new invariants associated to collections of closed subsets
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| − | of a symplectic manifold. These invariants are defined
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| − | through an elementary variational problem involving Poisson brackets.
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| − | The proof of non-triviality of these invariants requires methods of modern
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| − | symplectic topology (Floer theory). We present applications
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| − | to approximation theory on symplectic manifolds and to Hamiltonian dynamics.
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| − | The talk is based on a work in progress with Lev Buhovsky and Michael Entov.
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| − | ===Sean Paul (UW Madison)===
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| − | ''Canonical Kahler metrics and the stability of projective varieties"
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| − | I will give a survey of my own work on this problem, the basic reference is:
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| − | http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.2548v3
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| − | ===Conan Leung (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)===
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| − | ''SYZ mirror symmetry for toric manifolds''
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| − | ===Markus Banagl (U. Heidelberg)===
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| − | ''Intersection Space Methods and Their Application to Equivariant Cohomology, String Theory, and Mirror Symmetry.''
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| − | Using homotopy theoretic methods, we shall associate to certain classes of
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| − | singular spaces generalized geometric Poincaré complexes called intersection
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| − | spaces. Their cohomology is generally not isomorphic to intersection
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| − | cohomology.
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| − | In this talk, we shall concentrate on the applications of the new
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| − | cohomology theory to the equivariant real cohomology of isometric actions of
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| − | torsionfree discrete groups, to type II string theory and D-branes, and to
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| − | the relation of the new theory to classical intersection cohomology under
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| − | mirror symmetry.
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| − | ===Ke Zhu (U of Minnesota)===
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| − | ''Thick-thin decomposition of Floer trajectories and adiabatic gluing''
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| − | Let f be a generic Morse function on a symplectic manifold M.
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| − | For Floer trajectories of Hamiltonian \e f, as \e goes to 0 Oh proved that
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| − | they converge to “pearl complex” consisiting of J-holomorphic spheres
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| − | and joining gradient segments of f. The J-holomorphic spheres come from the
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| − | “thick” part of Floer trajectories and the gradient segments come from
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| − | the “thin” part. Similar “thick-thin” compactification result has
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| − | also been obtained by Mundet-Tian in twisted holomorphic map setting. In
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| − | this talk, we prove the reverse gluing result in the simplest setting: we
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| − | glue from disk-flow-dsik configurations to nearby Floer trajectories of
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| − | Hamitonians K_{\e} for sufficiently small \e and also show the
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| − | surjectivity. (Most part of the Hamiltonian K_{\e} is \ef). We will discuss
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| − | the application to PSS isomorphism. This is a joint work with Yong-Geun Oh.
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| − | ===Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State)===
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| − | ''Algebra, geometry, and dynamics of the pentagram map''
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| − | Introduced by R. Schwartz almost 20 years ago, the pentagram map acts on plane n-gons, considered up to projective equivalence, by drawing the diagonals that connect second-nearest vertices and taking the new n-gon formed by their intersections. I shall survey recent work on the pentagram map, in particular, I shall demonstrate that the dynamics of the pentagram map is completely integrable. I shall also explain that the pentagram map is a discretization of the Boussinesq equation, a well known completely integrable partial differential equation. A surprising relation between the spaces of polygons and combinatorial objects called the 2-frieze patterns (generalizing the frieze patterns of Coxeter) will be described. Eight new(?) configuration theorems of projective geometry will be demonstrated. The talk is illustrated by computer animation.
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| − | ===Ma Chit (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)===
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| − | ''A growth estimate of lattice points in Gorenstein cones using toric Einstein metrics''
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| − | Using the existence of Einstein metrics on toric Kahler and Sasaki manifolds, a lower bound estimate on the growth of lattice points is obtained for Gorenstein cones. This talk is based on a joint work with Conan Leung.
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| − | ===Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)===
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| − | ''Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry''
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| − | I will define, for each ribbon graph, a dg category,
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| − | and explain the conjectural relation to mirror symmetry.
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| − | I will being by reviewing how T-duality relates
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| − | coherent sheaves on toric varieties to constructible sheaves
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| − | on a vector space, then use this relation to glue
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| − | toric varieties together. In one-dimension, the
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| − | category of sheaves on such gluings has a
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| − | description in terms of ribbon graphs.
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| − | These categories are conjecturally
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| − | related to the Fukaya category of a noncompact
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| − | hypersurface mirror to the variety with toric
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| − | components.
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| − | I will use very basic examples.
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| − | This work is joint with Nicolo' Sibilla
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| − | and David Treumann.
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| − | ===Wenxuan Lu (MIT)===
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| − | ''Instanton Correction, Wall Crossing And Mirror Symmetry Of Hitchin's Moduli
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| − | We study two instanton correction problems of Hitchin's moduli spaces along with
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| − | their wall crossing formulas. The hyperkahler metric of a Hitchin's moduli space
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| − | can be put into an instanton-corrected form according to physicists Gaiotto,
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| − | Moore and Neitzke. The problem boils down to the construction of a set of
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| − | special coordinates which can be constructed as Fock-Goncharov coordinates
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| − | associated with foliations of quadratic differentials on a Riemann surface. A
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| − | wall crossing formula of Kontsevich and Soibelman arises both as a crucial
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| − | consistency condition and an effective computational tool. On the other hand
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| − | Gross and Siebert have succeeded in determining instanton corrections of
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| − | complex structures of Calabi-Yau varieties in the context of mirror symmetry
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| − | from a singular affine structure with additional data. We will show that the
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| − | two instanton correction problems are equivalent in an appropriate sense. This
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| − | is a nontrivial statement of mirror symmetry of Hitchin's moduli spaces which
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| − | till now has been mostly studied in the framework of geometric Langlands
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| − | duality. This result provides examples of Calabi-Yau varieties where the
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| − | instanton correction (in the sense of mirror symmetry) of metrics and complex
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| | ===Mohammed Abouzaid (Clay Institute & MIT)=== | | ===Mohammed Abouzaid (Clay Institute & MIT)=== |
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| | ===Alex Suciu (Northeastern)=== | | ===Alex Suciu (Northeastern)=== |
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