Seminar by Dr. Vanja Zuliani on Wednesday, April 9th, at 2:30 PM

[PERRONI FABIO]

UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE
DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA, INFORMATICA E GEOSCIENZE

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Wednesday, April 9th, 2026, at 2:30 pm.

Dr. Vanja Zuliani will give a seminar.

Title: Toward the noncommutative minimal model program.

Abstract: The aim of the talk is to introduce the noncommutative minimal model program (ncMMP) proposed by Halpern-Leistner and inspired by some works of

Dubrovin and Kontsevich. For a given projective variety X, the classical minimal model program asks if there is a variety Y that is birational to X but has simpler geometry,

such Y is called a minimal model of X. In the noncommutative context, we consider the derived category D(X) of coherent sheaves on X, and we ask if we can decompose it canonically. The biggest factor of the decomposition is then a minimal model for D(X). In order to find such a decomposition Halpern-Leistner proposes to use the quantum cohomology of X.

We will discuss some examples where Halpern-Leistner’s proposal is satisfied: Grassmannians, quadrics, and cubics in dimensions 3 and 4.

Venue: Seminar Room of the Department (Sezione di Matematica, H2 building, Via Valerio 12/1, 3rd floor, room 334).
Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
Best regards

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Fabio Perroni
Professore | Professor
Università degli Studi di Trieste | University of Trieste
Dipartimento di Matematica, Informatica e Geoscienze
Via Valerio, 12/1 - 34127 Trieste (Italy)
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