THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 19th of November 2015, at 10:15 a.m.

Adrian Langer (IM PAN)

will give a talk on

"Mirror Symmetry (without physics) and Geometric Langlands (without theorems)"

Abstract
The talk will be a general account of Mirror Symmetry (from a purely mathematical point of view) and its relations to the geometric Langlands conjecture. I will concentrate on some simple cases related to a particularly simple class of hyper-Kähler varieties, namely moduli spaces of flat bundles on curves. In this case, Mirror Symmetry predicts various conjectures, e.g., on invariants of the moduli spaces of flat bundles. I will talk about some partial results, using various approaches ranging from non-abelian Hodge theory to calculations involving counting of points of varieties defined over finite fields.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.