Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
3:00pm - 4:00pm, in McCormack 1-417

Jonathan Esole

Harvard University

The Geometry of Elliptic Fibrations and String Theory

Abstract: Elliptic curves and elliptic fibrations are playing a central role in many aspects of string theory. As a result, advances in string theory have induced surprising developments in our understanding of the topology and geometry of elliptic fibrations. In this talk I will review these new results inspired by string theory. In particular, I will discuss the structure of the singular fibers when the base is higher dimensional and the rich geometry of certain singular limits motivated by string dualities.