Meetings of the COW seminar in 2024-2025
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University of Oxford, Thursday 25th October 2024
1:00 Klaus Hulek (Hannover): Ball quotients and moduli spaces
2:30 Ailsa Keating (Cambridge): Homological mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces
4:00 Will Donovan (Tsinghua): Derived symmetries for crepant resolutions of hypersurfaces -
University of Bath, Thursday 14th November 2024
2:15 Renata Picciotto (Cambridge): Reduced Gromov-Witten invariants via desingularization of sheaves
3:45 Kento Fujita (Osaka): On the coupled Ding stability for log Fano pairs
5:00 Matt Booth (Imperial): Calabi-Yau structures and Koszul duality -
University of Warwick, Thursday 20th February 2025
2:00 Karim Adiprasito (Jussieu): Semigroup algebras, character rings and Parseval-Rayleigh identities
4:00 Naoki Koseki (Liverpool): Degree two Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of local curves
5:00 Anya Nordskova (Hasselt): Bondal-Polishchuk’s conjecture for Fano threefolds of Picard rank one -
Loughborough University, Thursday 28th March 2025
1:30 Fenglong You (Nottingham): Relative mirror symmetry and some applications
3:00 Gavin Brown (Warwick): Classification of smooth flops
4:30 Nick Rekuski (Liverpool): Stability of syzygy bundles -
University of Birmingham, Thursday 15th May 2025
1:00 Veronica Arena (Cambridge): The Chow ring of weighted blow-ups
2:30 Chunyi Li (Warwick): On a real reduction of the Bridgeland stability manifold
4:00 Andrea Brini (Sheffield): Refined Gromov-Witten invariants -
Cardiff University, Thursday 10th July 2025
2:00 Mark Gross (Cambridge): Vector fields on intrinsic mirrors
3:30 Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Cité): Higgs categories and cluster algebras with coefficients
5:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial): A Hopf index for isotropic sections of bundles with quadratic forms -
Queen Mary University of London, Thursday 31st July 2025
2:00 Abigail Ward (Cambridge): A mirror symmetry correspondence in birational geometry
3:30 Nicola Pagani (Liverpool): Smoothable compactified Jacobians of nodal curves
5:00 Alessandro Chiodo (Sorbonne): Double ramification cycles within degeneracy loci via moduli of roots
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