Mathematics Seminar - Wednesday, 11 July 2012

[Mabilo]

M A T H E M A T I C S   S E M I N A R S   2012


Wednesday, 11 July, at 14.30 hrs.

Dr. Jinxing Xu
(USTC- Beijing, China)


Title: Conifold Transitions for Some Complete Intersection
Calabi-Yau Threefolds


Abstract: I will expain the process of conifold transition from 
Calabi-Yau threefolds to connected sums of S^{3}X S^{3}. Following the 
work of Y. Kawamata, G. Tian and R. Friedman, the existence of this kind 
of conifold transition is reduced to the existence of pairwise disjoint 
isolated rational curves in these Calabi-Yau threefolds. As an example, 
I will deal with the complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds in 
products of projective spaces.

Venue: Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor , ICTP Leonardo Building.