Topic: Calabi-Yau Varieties: Enumerative Geometry, Arithmetic Geometry and Physics

Speaker: Prof. Albrecht Klemm

Coordinates: Classroom 2105, 16:00, Tuesday, April 2

Abstract: Complex Kähler varieties with vanishing first Chern class, Calabi-Yau varieties for short, can be viewed as natural generalisation of elliptic curves from one -- to higher complexdimensions.  Here we highlight  the most interesting mathematical aspects of thesegeneralisations with a particular emphasis on their applications to mathematical physics, which range from geometric engineering of non-perturbative quantum field theoriesover the predictions  for the microscopic entropy of black holes to the calculation of Feynman integrals.