NSF-CBMS Conference:
Tropical Geometry & Mirror Symmetry
Prof. Mark Gross (UCSD), Principal Lecturer
December 13 - 17, 2008, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
R. Castano-Bernard, Y. Soibelman, I. Zharkov, organizers
Tropical Geometry & Mirror Symmetry
Prof. Mark Gross (UCSD), Principal Lecturer
December 13 - 17, 2008, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
R. Castano-Bernard, Y. Soibelman, I. Zharkov, organizers
Professor
Mark Gross from University of California, San Diego is an
internationally renowned expert in higher dimensional algebraic geometry,
differential geometry, deformation theory, Calabi-Yau manifolds and
mirror symmetry. He has made several important contributions to these
areas. His work has been largely concerned with understanding mirror symmetry
using degenerations. In joint work with Bernd Siebert, he recently
showed how, starting from an affine manifold with singularities, one
can reconstruct a degeneration of Calabi-Yau varieties. This
construction is controlled by tropical data, and opens the door to a
tropical approach to understanding mirror symmetry.
In this conference, Mark Gross will provide an expository explanation of this new understanding of mirror symmetry.
In this conference, Mark Gross will provide an expository explanation of this new understanding of mirror symmetry.
* This conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS 0735319,
and the K-State Center for Integration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research (I-Center).
and the K-State Center for Integration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research (I-Center).