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SUMMARY:Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State University)
DTSTART:20200925T153000Z
DTEND:20200925T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/1/">T
 ropical Psi Classes</a>\nby Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State University) as
  part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\nAbstract: TBA\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/1/
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SUMMARY:Pierrick Bousseau (ETH Zürich)
DTSTART:20201002T153000Z
DTEND:20201002T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/2/">T
 he skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting</a>\nby Pie
 rrick Bousseau (ETH Zürich) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry S
 eminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe Kauffman bracket skein algebra is a quantization
  of the algebra of regular functions on the SL_2 character variety of a to
 pological surface. I will explain how to realize the skein algebra of the 
 4-punctured sphere as the output of a mirror symmetry construction based o
 n higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of a log Calabi-Yau cubic surface.
  This leads to a proof of a previously conjectured positivity property of 
 the bracelets bases of the skein algebras of the 4-punctured sphere and of
  the 1-punctured torus.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/2/
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SUMMARY:Tony Yue Yu (Université Paris-Sud\, Paris-Saclay)
DTSTART:20201009T153000Z
DTEND:20201009T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/3/">S
 econdary fan\, theta functions and moduli of Calabi-Yau pairs</a>\nby Tony
  Yue Yu (Université Paris-Sud\, Paris-Saclay) as part of UBC Vancouver Al
 gebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nWe conjecture that any connected c
 omponent Q of the moduli space of triples (X\,E=E1+⋯+En\,Θ) where X is 
 a smooth projective variety\, E is a normal crossing anti-canonical diviso
 r with a 0-stratum\, every Ei is smooth\, and Θ is an ample divisor not c
 ontaining any 0-stratum of E\, is \\emph{unirational}. More precisely: not
 e that Q has a natural embedding into the Kollár-Shepherd-Barron-Alexeev 
 moduli space of stable pairs\, we conjecture that its closure admits a fin
 ite cover by a complete toric variety. We construct the associated complet
 e toric fan\, generalizing the Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinski secondary fan f
 or reflexive polytopes. Inspired by mirror symmetry\, we speculate a synth
 etic construction of the universal family over this toric variety\, as the
  Proj of a sheaf of graded algebras with a canonical basis\, whose structu
 re constants are given by counts of non-archimedean analytic disks. In the
  Fano case and under the assumption that the mirror contains a Zariski ope
 n torus\, we construct the conjectural universal family\, generalizing the
  families of Kapranov-Sturmfels-Zelevinski and Alexeev in the toric case. 
 In the case of del Pezzo surfaces with an anti-canonical cycle of (−1)-c
 urves\, we prove the full conjecture. The reference is arXiv:2008.02299 jo
 int with Hacking and Keel.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)
DTSTART:20201016T153000Z
DTEND:20201016T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/4/">E
 xponential integrals\, Holomorphic Floer theory and resurgence</a>\nby Yan
  Soibelman (Kansas State University) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Ge
 ometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nHolomorphic Floer theory is a joint project 
 with Maxim Kontsevich\, which is devoted to various aspects of the Floer t
 heory in the framework of complex symplectic manifolds.\n\nIn my talk I wi
 ll consider an important special case  of the general story. Exponential i
 ntegrals in finite and infinite dimension can be thought of generalization
  of the theory of periods (i.e variations of Hodge structure).  In particu
 lar\, there are comparison isomorphisms between Betti and de Rham cohomolo
 gy in the exponential setting. These isomorphisms are corollaries of categ
 orical equivalences which are incarnations of our generalized Riemann-Hilb
 ert correspondence for complex symplectic manifolds.\n\nFurthermore\, foma
 l series which appear e.g. in the stationary phase method or Feynman expan
 sions (in infinite dimensions) are Borel re-summable (resurgent). If time 
 permits I will explain the underlying mathematical structure which we call
  analytic wall-crossing structure. From the perspective of Holomorphic Flo
 er theory it is related to the estimates for the number of pseudo-holomorp
 hic discs with boundaries on two given complex Lagrangian submanifolds.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/4/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Dragos Oprea (UCSD)
DTSTART:20201023T153000Z
DTEND:20201023T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/5/">V
 irtual invariants of Quot schemes of surfaces</a>\nby Dragos Oprea (UCSD) 
 as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe Quo
 t schemes of surfaces parametrizing quotients of dimension at most 1 of th
 e trivial sheaf carry 2-term perfect obstruction theories. Several generat
 ing series of associated virtual invariants are conjectured to be given by
  rational functions. We show this is the case for several geometries inclu
 ding all smooth projective surfaces with p_g>0. This talk is based on join
 t work with Noah Arbesfeld\, Drew Johnson\, Woonam Lim and Rahul Pandharip
 ande.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/5/
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SUMMARY:Daniel Halpern-Leistner (Cornell University)
DTSTART:20201030T153000Z
DTEND:20201030T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/6/">D
 erived Theta-stratifications and the D-equivalence conjecture</a>\nby Dani
 el Halpern-Leistner (Cornell University) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebrai
 c Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe D-equivalence conjecture predicts th
 at birationally equivalent projective Calabi-Yau manifolds have equivalent
  derived categories of coherent sheaves. It is motivated by homological mi
 rror symmetry\, and has inspired a lot of recent work on connections betwe
 en birational geometry and derived categories. In dimension 3\, the conjec
 ture is settled\, but little is known in higher dimensions. I will discuss
  a proof of this conjecture for the class of Calab-Yau manifolds that are 
 birationally equivalent to some moduli space of stable sheaves on a K3 sur
 face. This is the only class for which the conjecture is known in dimensio
 n >3. The proof uses a more general structure theory for the derived categ
 ory of an algebraic stack equipped with a Theta-stratification\, which we 
 apply in this case to the Harder-Narasimhan stratification of the moduli o
 f sheaves.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/6/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yifeng Huang (University of Michigan)
DTSTART:20201106T170000Z
DTEND:20201106T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/7/">C
 ohomology of configuration spaces of punctured varieties</a>\nby Yifeng Hu
 ang (University of Michigan) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry S
 eminar\n\n\nAbstract\nGiven a smooth complex variety $X$ (not necessarily 
 compact)\, consider the unordered configuration space $Conf^n(X)$ defined 
 as ${(x_1\,...\,x_n)\\in X^n: x_i \\neq x_j\\ \\text{for}\\ i\\neq j} / S_
 n$. The singular cohomology of $Conf^n(X)$ has long been an active area of
  research. In this talk\, we investigate the following phenomenon: "punctu
 ring once more" seems to have a very predictable effect on the cohomology 
 of configuration spaces when the variety we start with is noncompact. In s
 pecific\, a formula of Napolitano determines the Betti numbers of $Conf^n(
 X - {P})$ from the Betti numbers of $Conf^m(X)$ $(m \\leq n)$ if $X$ is a 
 smooth *noncompact* algebraic curve and $P$ is a point. We present a new p
 roof using an explicit algebraic method\, which also upgrades this formula
  about Betti numbers into a formula about mixed Hodge numbers and generali
 zes this formula to certain cases where $X$ is of higher dimension.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/7/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emily Clader (San Francisco State University)
DTSTART:20201120T170000Z
DTEND:20201120T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/8/">P
 ermutohedral Complexes and Curves With Cyclic Action</a>\nby Emily Clader 
 (San Francisco State University) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geomet
 ry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nAlthough the moduli space of genus-zero curves i
 s not a toric\nvariety\, it shares an intriguing amount of the combinatori
 al structure that a\ntoric variety would enjoy. In fact\, by adjusting the
  moduli problem slightly\,\none finds a moduli space that is indeed toric\
 , known as Losev-Manin space. The\nassociated polytope is the permutohedro
 n\, which also encodes the\ngroup-theoretic structure of the symmetric gro
 up. Batyrev and Blume generalized\nthis story by constructing a "type-B" v
 ersion of Losev-Manin space\, whose\nassociated polytope is a signed permu
 tohedron that relates to the group of\nsigned permutations. In joint work 
 in progress with C. Damiolini\, D. Huang\, S.\nLi\, and R. Ramadas\, we ca
 rry out the next stage of generalization\, defining a\nfamily of moduli sp
 ace of curves with Z_r action encoded by an associated\n"permutohedral com
 plex" for a more general complex reflection group\, which\nspecializes whe
 n r=2 to Batyrev and Blume's moduli space.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/8/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Dustin Ross (San Francisco State University)
DTSTART:20201127T170000Z
DTEND:20201127T180000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/9
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/9/">P
 utting the "volume" back in volume polynomials</a>\nby Dustin Ross (San Fr
 ancisco State University) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Semi
 nar\n\n\nAbstract\nIt is a strange and wonderful fact that Chow rings of m
 atroids behave in many ways similarly to Chow rings of smooth projective v
 arieties. Because of this\, the Chow ring of a matroid is determined by a 
 homogeneous polynomial called its volume polynomial\, whose coefficients r
 ecord the degrees of all possible top products of divisors. The use of the
  word "volume" is motivated by the fact that the volume polynomial of a sm
 ooth projective toric variety actually measures the volumes of certain pol
 ytopes associated to the variety. In the matroid setting\, on the other ha
 nd\, no such polytopes exist\, and the goal of our work was to find more g
 eneral polyhedral objects whose volume is measured by the volume polynomia
 l of matroids. In this talk\, I will motivate and describe these polyhedra
 l objects. This is joint work with Anastasia Nathanson.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/9/
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SUMMARY:Junliang Shen (MIT)
DTSTART:20201204T163000Z
DTEND:20201204T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/10
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/10/">
 Intersection cohomology of the moduli of of 1-dimensional sheaves and the 
 moduli of Higgs bundles</a>\nby Junliang Shen (MIT) as part of UBC Vancouv
 er Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn general\, the topology of 
 the moduli space of semistable sheaves on an algebraic variety relies heav
 ily on the choice of the Euler characteristic of the sheaves. We show a st
 riking phenomenon that\, for the moduli of 1-dimensional semistable sheave
 s on a toric del Pezzo surface (e.g. P^2) or the moduli of semistable Higg
 s bundles with respect to a divisor of degree > 2g-2 on a curve\, the inte
 rsection cohomology of the moduli space is independent of the choice of th
 e Euler characteristic.  This confirms a conjecture of Bousseau for P^2\, 
 and proves a conjecture of Toda in the case of local toric Calabi-Yau 3-fo
 lds. In the proof\, a generalized version of Ngô's support theorem plays 
 a crucial role. Based on joint work in progress with Davesh Maulik.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/10/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Christopher Woodward (Rutgers University)
DTSTART:20201113T163000Z
DTEND:20201113T173000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/11
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/11/">
 Quantum K-theory of git quotients</a>\nby Christopher Woodward (Rutgers Un
 iversity) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstrac
 t\n(w E. Gonzalez)  I will discuss a generalization of the Kirwan map to q
 uantum K-theory\, a presentation of quantum K-theory of toric varieties\, 
 and some open questions.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/11/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Ming Zhang (UBC)
DTSTART:20201113T174500Z
DTEND:20201113T184500Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/13
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/13/">
 Verlinde/Grassmannian Correspondence</a>\nby Ming Zhang (UBC) as part of U
 BC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn the 90s'\, Witte
 n gave a physical derivation of an isomorphism between the Verlinde algebr
 a of $\\mathrm{GL}(n)$ of level l and the quantum cohomology ring of the G
 rassmannian $\\mathrm{Gr}(n\,n+l)$. In the joint work arXiv:1811.01377 wit
 h Yongbin Ruan\, we proposed a $K$-theoretic generalization of Witten's wo
 rk by relating the $\\mathrm{GL}_n$ Verlinde numbers to the level $l$ quan
 tum $K$-invariants of the Grassmannian $\\mathrm{Gr}(n\,n+l)$\, and refer 
 to it as the Verlinde/Grassmannian correspondence. The correspondence was 
 formulated precisely in the aforementioned paper\, and we proved the rank 
 2 case ($n$=2) there.\n\nIn this talk\, I will first explain the backgroun
 d of this correspondence and its interpretation in physics. Then I will di
 scuss the main idea of the proof for arbitrary rank. A new technical ingre
 dient is the virtual nonabelian localization formula developed by Daniel H
 alpern-Leistner.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/13/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Henry Liu (Columbia University)
DTSTART:20210201T230000Z
DTEND:20210202T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/14
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/14/">
 Quasimaps and stable pairs</a>\nby Henry Liu (Columbia University) as part
  of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nI will explain
  an equivalence between a flavor of Donaldson-Thomas theory (due to Bryan 
 and Steinberg) on ADE surface fibrations and quasimaps to Hilbert schemes 
 of ADE surfaces. The proof involves an explicit combinatorial description 
 of vertices. The equivalence can be used to relate machinery from both sid
 es\, notably an equivariant K-theoretic DT crepant resolution conjecture a
 nd 3d mirror symmetry.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/14/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Qile Chen (Boston College)
DTSTART:20210322T220000Z
DTEND:20210322T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/15
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/15/">
 Counting curves in critical locus via logarithmic compactifications</a>\nb
 y Qile Chen (Boston College) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry S
 eminar\n\n\nAbstract\nI will introduce some recent developments and work i
 n progress on\nstudying Gauged Linear Sigma Models using logarithmic compa
 ctifications.\n\nThese logarithmic compactifications admit two types of vi
 rtual cycles ---\nthe reduced virtual cycles that recover Gromov-Witten in
 variants of\ncomplete intersections\,  and the canonical virtual cycles th
 at depend only\non the geometry of ambient spaces. These two types of virt
 ual cycles differ\nonly by a third virtual cycle of the boundary of the lo
 garithmic\ncompactifications. Using the punctured logarithmic maps of\nAbr
 amovich-Chen-Gross-Siebert\, these virtual cycles can be computed via the\
 ntropical and equivariant geometry of the logarithmic compactifications.\n
 This leads to a new method for computing Gromov-Witten invariants of\ncomp
 lete intersections.\n\nThe talk consists of joint work with Felix Janda\, 
 Yongbin Ruan\, Adrien\nSauvaget and Rachel Webb.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/15/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Jack Petok (Dartmouth College)
DTSTART:20210315T220000Z
DTEND:20210315T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/16
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/16/">
 Kodaira dimensions of some moduli spaces of hyperkähler fourfolds</a>\nby
  Jack Petok (Dartmouth College) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometr
 y Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nWe use modular forms to study the birational geom
 etry of some moduli spaces of hyperkähler fourfolds. I'll review a bit of
  the algebraic geometry of these moduli spaces\, and then I'll explain som
 e methods\, due to Gritsenko\, Hulek\, and Sankaran\, for computing their 
 Kodaira dimensions. These methods make use of special modular forms define
 d on high rank orthogonal groups. I'll also report on an ongoing project w
 ith Jen Berg applying related techniques to certain moduli spaces of Enriq
 ues surfaces.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/16/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Dylan G.L. Allegretti (UBC)
DTSTART:20210118T230000Z
DTEND:20210119T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/17
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/17/">
 Wall-crossing and differential equations</a>\nby Dylan G.L. Allegretti (UB
 C) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe 
 Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula describes the wall-crossing beh
 avior of BPS invariants in Donaldson-Thomas theory. It can be formulated a
 s an identity between (possibly infinite) products of automorphisms of a f
 ormal power series ring. In this talk\, I will explain how these same prod
 ucts also appear in the exact WKB analysis of Schrödinger's equation. In 
 this context\, they describe the Stokes phenomenon for objects known as Vo
 ros symbols.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/17/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Arnav Tripathy (Harvard University)
DTSTART:20210329T220000Z
DTEND:20210329T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/18
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/18/">
 K3s as Hyperkahler Quotients</a>\nby Arnav Tripathy (Harvard University) a
 s part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nI'll exp
 lain how to construct K3 surfaces as hyperkahler quotients and\, as time p
 ermits\, our expected application to counting open GW invariants. This is 
 all joint work with M. Zimet.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/18/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yu-Wei Fan (UC Berkeley)
DTSTART:20210208T230000Z
DTEND:20210209T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/19
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/19/">
 Stokes matrices\, character varieties\, and points on spheres</a>\nby Yu-W
 ei Fan (UC Berkeley) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n
 \n\nAbstract\nModuli spaces of points on n-spheres carry natural actions o
 f braid groups. For n=0\,1\, and 3\, we prove that these symmetries extend
  to actions of mapping class groups of positive genus surfaces\, through e
 xceptional isomorphisms with certain character varieties. We also apply th
 e exceptional isomorphisms to the study of Stokes matrices and exceptional
  collections of triangulated categories. Joint work with Junho Peter Whang
 .\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/19/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Mark Shoemaker (Colorado State University)
DTSTART:20210222T230000Z
DTEND:20210223T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/20
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/20/">
 A mirror theorem for gauged linear sigma models</a>\nby Mark Shoemaker (Co
 lorado State University) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Semin
 ar\n\n\nAbstract\nLet G be a finite group acting on a smooth complex varie
 ty M.  Let  X —> M/G be a crepant resolution by a smooth variety X.  The
  Crepant Resolution Conjecture predicts a complicated relationship between
  the Gromov—Witten invariants of X and the orbifold Gromov—Witten inva
 riants of the stack [M/G].\n\nIn this talk I will describe an analogous co
 njecture involving Landau—Ginzburg (LG) models.  An LG model is\, roughl
 y\, a smooth complex variety Y together with a regular function w: Y—> \
 \CC.  LG models can be used to give alternate “resolutions” of hypersu
 rface singularities in a certain sense and are related to so-called noncom
 mutative resolutions. I will briefly discuss the gauged linear sigma model
 \, which is used to define curve counting invariants for LG models\, and d
 escribe a new technique for computing these invariants.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/20/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Yefeng Shen (University of Oregon)
DTSTART:20210301T230000Z
DTEND:20210302T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/21
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/21/">
 Virasoro constraints in quantum singularity theory</a>\nby Yefeng Shen (Un
 iversity of Oregon) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\
 n\nAbstract\nIn this talk\, we introduce Virasoro operators in quantum sin
 gularity theories for nondegenerate quasi-homogeneous polynomials with non
 trivial diagonal symmetries. Using Givental's quantization formula of quad
 ratic Hamiltonians\, these operators satisfy the Virasoro relations. Inspi
 red by the famous Virasoro conjecture in Gromov-Witten theory\, we conject
 ure that the genus g generating functions arise in quantum singularity the
 ories are annihilated by the Virasoro operators. We verify the conjecture 
 in various examples and discuss the connections to mirror symmetry of LG m
 odels and LG/CY correspondence. This talk is based on work joint with Weiq
 iang He.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/21/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Davesh Maulik (MIT)
DTSTART:20210308T230000Z
DTEND:20210309T000000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/22
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/22/">
 Cohomology of the moduli of Higgs bundles and the Hausel-Thaddeus conjectu
 re</a>\nby Davesh Maulik (MIT) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry
  Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will discuss some results on the 
 structure of the cohomology of the moduli space of stable SL_n Higgs bundl
 es on a curve. One consequence is a new proof of the Hausel-Thaddeus conje
 cture proven previously by Groechenig-Wyss-Ziegler via p-adic integration.
  We will also discuss connections to the P=W conjecture if time permits. B
 ased on joint work with Junliang Shen.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/22/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Zijun Zhou (IPMU)
DTSTART:20210412T220000Z
DTEND:20210412T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20260422T225927Z
UID:UBC-AG/23
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/23/">
 3d mirror symmetry\, vertex function\, and elliptic stable envelope</a>\nb
 y Zijun Zhou (IPMU) as part of UBC Vancouver Algebraic Geometry Seminar\n\
 n\nAbstract\n3d mirror symmetry is a duality in physics\, where Higgs and 
 Coulomb branches of certain pairs of 3d N=4 SUSY gauge theories are exchan
 ged with each other. Motivated from this\, M. Aganagic and A. Okounkov int
 roduced the enumerative geometric conjecture that the vertex functions of 
 the mirror theories are related to each other. The two sets of q-differenc
 e equations satisfied by the vertex functions\, in terms of the K\\"ahler 
 and equivariant parameters\, are expected to exchange with each other. The
  conjecture therefore leads to a nontrivial relation between their monodro
 my matrices\, the so-called elliptic stable envelopes. In this talk\, I wi
 ll discuss the proof in several cases of the conjecture for both vertex fu
 nctions and elliptic stable envelopes. This is based on joint works with R
 . Rim\\'anyi\, A. Smirnov\, and A. Varchenko.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/UBC-AG/23/
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