Math Seminar, Monday 23 March at 15:00: Tools for constructing Calabi-Yau varieties and their moduli

[ICTP Math Section]

*Math Seminar*

Monday 23 March at 15:00

*Venue:* Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

*Speaker:* Elizabeth Gasparim (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile)

*Title: *Tools for constructing Calabi-Yau varieties and their moduli

*Abstract:* Among the many puzzling features of the Calabi-Yau 
Landscape, perhaps the most fundamental one is its astronomical size. I 
will discuss how various open questions in mathematics and physics have 
motivated the construction of Calabi-Yau varieties tailored specifically 
to fill out preferred corners of the Landscape. It is well known that 
Machine Learning techniques have produced over 473 million Calabi-Yau 
threefolds. Using only classical tools, I will describe examples 
including: a Calabi-Yau vampire and an elementary local Calabi-Yau 
threefold having infinitely many distinct infinitesimal deformations.

All are welcome to join.

https://indico.ictp.it/event/11314/