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22.07.2014 | Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech)
"An overview of mirror symmetry" 14:00-15:30, klHS, Phil 12 |
The poster for this lecture series can be found here.
Abstract:
In this talk I will give a gentle introduction to and
overview of `mirror symmetry', a duality
in two-dimensional quantum field theories
in which theories with different interpretations are secretly equivalent.
Historically, mirror symmetry was a launching point for Gromov-Witten theory.
We review mirror symmetry and its role, and then outline modern extensions
such as homological mirror symmetry and especially (0,2) mirror symmetry.