Mirror Symmetry Learning Seminar
Mondays 4-5pm, MC 2017
Organizers: Jesse Huang, Kaleb Ruscitti, Francisco Villacis
Welcome! This is a multi-semester learning project about mirror symmetry based at the University of Waterloo. Majority of talks are given by junior mathematicians. See below for our schedule.
If you or anyone you know would like to participate, let us know!
Photo reference: Â Justin Hilburn's webpage
Winter 2025
Topics
Basic formalisms of 2D and 3D mirror symmetry
Literature on enumerative (2D) mirror symmetry and GIT wall-crossing
Recent work "3D is mirror symmetry is mirror symmetry" by Chan-Leung
Schedule
Jan 27: Jesse Huang, 2D mirror symmetry for complex tori
Feb 3: Ben Webster, Intro to 3D mirror symmetry
Feb 10: No talk
Feb 11 (1pm @ AG seminar): Jiahui Huang, complex/Kahler deformations
Feb 17: Kaleb Ruscitti, Yukawa coupling, mirror map
Feb 24: No talk
Mar 3: Andrew Hanlon (Dartmouth College)
Mar 4 (1pm @ AG seminar): Jesse Huang, Enumerative 2D mirror symmetry, quantum cohomology
Mar 10: No talk
Mar 18 (1pm @ AG seminar): Kuntal Banerjee, TBD
Mar 24: Adrian Dawid (University of Cambridge)
Mar 31: Francisco Villacis, TBD
April 1 (1pm @ AG seminar): Kaleb Ruscitti, 3D MS is MS 1
April 7: Francisco Villacis, 3D MS is MS 2
April 14: Elizabeth Cai, TBD
Spring-Summer 2025
Topics
Homological Mirror Symmetry