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.