Summary: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
BERKELEY · DAVIS · IRVINE · LOS ANGELES · MERCED · RIVERSIDE · SAN DIEGO · SAN FRANCISCO
CSANTA BARBARA · SANTA CRUZ
Geometry, Topology, and Physics Seminar
Calabi­Yau Singularities
David Morrison
UCSB
Friday, February 15, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Room 6635 South Hall
Abstract: Calabi­Yau threefolds are compact Riemannian manifolds with holonomy
SU(3), and as such, are always projective algebraic varieties. As algebraic varieties,
there is a natural generalization to singular Calabi­Yau threefolds (although the
existence of generalized metrics on these singular spaces is not known). Moreover,
in the application of Calabi­Yau threefolds to the study of string compactification,
singular Calabi­Yau threefolds play an important role. We will review what is
known about the "Calabi­Yau singularities" on such spaces, with an eye on recent
developments and applications.
Information about future meetings of this seminar can be found at
http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~malmendier/GTPseminar/


Source: Akhmedov, Azer - Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara

Collections: Mathematics