Formulae of one-partition and two-partition Hodge integrals

Speaker: 

Melissa Liu

Institution: 

Columbia University

Time: 

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

Many Hodge integral identities, including the ELSV formula of Hurwitz numbers and the lambda_g conjecture, are various limits of the formula of one-partition Hodge integrals conjectured by Marino and Vafa. Local Gromov-Witten invariants in all degrees and all genera of any toric surfaces in a Calabi-Yau threefold are determined by the formula of two-partition Hodge integrals. I will describe proofs of the formulae of one-partition and two-partition Hodge integrals based on joint works with Kefeng Liu and Jian Zhou.

Hamiltonian Stationary Shrinkers and Expanders for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flows

Speaker: 

Yng-Ing Li

Institution: 

National Taiwan University

Time: 

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

In this talk, I will report a recent joint work with Mu-Tao Wang. We construct examples of shrinkers and expanders for Lagrangian mean curvature flows. These examples are Hamiltonian stationary and asymptotic to the union of two Hamiltonian stationary cones found by Schoen and Wolfson. The Schoen-Wolfson cones are obstructions to the existence problems of special Lagragians or Lagrangian minimal surfaces in the variational approach. It is known that these cone singularities cannot be resolved by any smooth Lagrangian submanifolds. The shrinkers and expanders that we found can be glued together to yield solutions of the Brakke motion-a weak formulation of the mean curvature flow, and thus provide a canonical way to resolve the union of two such cone singularities. Our theorem is analogus to the Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf gluing construction for the K\"ahler-Ricci flows.

Geometric Flows on Manifolds with G_2 Structures

Speaker: 

Spiro Karigiannis

Institution: 

MSRI

Time: 

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

I will discuss geometric flows of G_2 structures on manifolds. These are flows of a 3-form on a 7-manifold with a certain non-degeneracy condition. The form determines a Riemmannian metric in a non-linear way. There is an associated tensor, called the torsion of the G_2 structure, which vanishes if and only if the manifold has G_2 holonomy.

Polar actions on Hilbert spaces

Speaker: 

Professor Ernst Heintze

Institution: 

University of Augsburg, Germany

Time: 

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

An isometric action of a Lie group is called polar if it admits
sections, i.e. submanifolds which meet all orbits and always
perpendicularly. Polarity is a very restrictive condition. For example,
in case of linear actions on *R^*n polarity characterizes the isotropy
representations of symmetric spaces (Dadok).

The aim of this talk is to report on work in progress to prove an
infinite dimensional analogue of Dadok's theorem. C.-L. Terng has
constructed interesting examples of polar actions on Hilbert spaces by
affine isometries, the so called P(G,H) actions. Here G is a compact Lie
group, H a closed subgroup of G \times G, and P(G,H) consists of all
paths in G with end points in H. The action of P(G,H) on the Hilbert
space of L^2-curves in the Lie algebra of G is by gauge transformations.
Surprisingly the actions correspond also to isotropy actions of
symmetric spaces which are now infinite dimension and quotients of a
Kac-Moody group by the fixed point set of an involution. We conjecture
that the P(G,H) actions exhaust all polar actions on a Hilbert space.

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