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...
Abstract:In this talk, upon discussing aspects of the string landscape, I will motivate and introduce a program for birationally characterizing the infinite-distance degenerations of compact elliptic Calabi-Yau varieties, described in a Weierstrass form. Then, I will report on our main results for elliptic K3 surfaces, which conform with what is known about Kulikov models. If time permits, a re...