Planned seminars

Europe/Lisbon
Room P3.10, Mathematics Building Instituto Superior Técnicohttps://tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Francisco Nascimento
Francisco Nascimento, Instituto Superior Técnico

We present a systematic study of kinematic formulas in convex geometry. We first give a classical presentation of kinematic formulas for integration with respect to the rotation group $SO(n)$, where Steiner's Formula, the intrinsic volumes and Hadwiger's Characterization Theorem play a crucial role. Then we will show a new extension to integration along the general linear group $GL(n)$. Using the bijection of matrix polar decomposition and a Gaussian measure to integrate along positive definite matrices, a new formula is obtained, for which the classical $SO(n)$ formula is a particular case. We also reference the unitary group $U(n)$ case and its corresponding extension to the symplectic group $Sp(2n,\mathbb{R})$.

Europe/Lisbon
Room P3.10, Mathematics Building Instituto Superior Técnicohttps://tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Naichung Conan Leung
, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

3d mirror symmetry is a mysterious duality for certain pairs of hyperkähler manifolds, or more generally complex symplectic manifolds/stacks. In this talk, we will describe its relationships with 2d mirror symmetry. This could be regarded as a 3d analog of the paper Mirror Symmetry is T-Duality by Strominger, Yau and Zaslow which described 2d mirror symmetry via 1d dualities.