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Mirror symmetry of singularities

Geometry/Topology

Speaker: Hao Xu
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, Apr 13 2010, 4:10PM

The FJRW theory for nondegenerate quasihomogeneous singularities provides a mathematical framework for the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence. We will discuss Witten's ADE hierarchy conjecture proved by Fan-Jarvis-Ruan and their relations with Gromov-Witten theory.