Fano toric varieties and their mirrors
    Speaker: 
  
  
  
      Elana Kalashnikov (Imperial College London)  
Date and Time: 
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
McMaster University - Hamilton Hall 305
Abstract: 
In this talk, I’ll try to give a sense of mirror symmetry for Fano varieties and its role in their classification by describing how mirror symmetry (in the sense of a matching of two sets of differential equations) works as concretely as possible in the case of toric varieties. I’ll start with recalling the fan construction of a toric variety, then describe the A side – quantum cohomology of a toric variety, and the B side – the Landau-Ginzburg model, giving each explicitly (if partially) for projective space.

