AbstractWe briefly review the origin in physics of attractor points on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds. We turn to their mathematical interpretation as special cases of Hodge loci. This leads to fascinating conjectures on the modularity of the Calabi-Yau threefolds at these points in terms of their periods and L-functions. For hypergeometric one-parameter families of Calabi-Yau threef...
Differential Geometry SeminarOrganizers:Jialong Deng, Akito FutakiSpeaker:Sébastien Picard (UBC)Time:Tues., 21:00-22:00, Sept. 24, 2024Online:Zoom Meeting ID: 271 534 5558Passcode: YMSCTitle:Non-Kahler Degenerations of Calabi-Yau ThreefoldsAbstract:It was proposed in the works of Clemens, Reid, Friedman to connect Calabi-Yau threefolds with different topologies by a process which degenera...