Curve counting and tropical geometry
Date
Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker
Hannah Markwig (University of Tübingen)
Location
Mondi Seminar Room 2, Central Building
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
Uli Wagner
Contact
The talk will introduce tropical geometry as a tool to study generating functions of counts of curves. Such generating functions appear for example in the context of mirror symmetry.
In some cases, they can be related to Feynman integrals, allowing to study quasimodularity properties