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 Date Speaker Title Sep. 9 11am Math 622 Eugene Gorsky (UC Davis) Khovanov-Rozansky homology and the flag Hilbert scheme Sep. 16 Heather Lee (IAS) Homological mirror symmetry for open Riemann surfaces from pair-of-pants decompositions Sep. 23 Rob Silversmith (University of Michigan) A mirror theorem for symmetric products of projective space Sep. 30 Michael Willis (University of Virginia) A Colored Khovanov Homotopy Type Oct. 7 Cheuk Yu Mak (IAS) Symplectic log Calabi-Yau surfaces Oct. 14 Peter Koroteev (University of Minnesota) TBA Oct. 21 Andrew Lee (University of Texas at Austin) TBA Oct. 28 Ian Zemke (UCLA) TBA Nov. 4 Jake Solomon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / IAS) Nov. 7-11 Workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry (IAS) Nov. 18 TBA Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Dec. 2 Oleg Lazarev (Stanford University) TBA Dec. 9 Hülya Argüz (IAS) Mark McLean (Stony Brook) Luis Diogo (Columbia University)

# Abstracts

#### September 9, 2016: Eugene Gorsky "Khovanov-Rozansky homology and the flag Hilbert scheme"

Abstract: The Jucys-Murphy elements are known to generate a maximal commutative subalgebra in the Hecke algebra. They can be categorified to a family of commuting complexes of Soergel bimodules. I will describe a relation between a category generated by these complexes and the category of sheaves on the flag Hilbert scheme of points on the plane, using the recent work of Elias and Hogancamp on categorical diagonalization. As an application, I will give an explicit conjectural description of the Khovanov-Rozansky homology of generalized torus links. The talk is based on a joint work with Andrei Negut and Jacob Rasmussen.

#### September 16, 2016: Heather Lee "Homological mirror symmetry for open Riemann surfaces from pair-of-pants decompositions"

Abstract: We will demonstrate one direction of HMS for punctured Riemann surfaces - the wrapped Fukaya category of a punctured Riemann surface is equivalent to the matrix factorization category MF(X,W) of the toric Landau-Ginzburg mirror (X, W). The category MF(X,W) can be constructed from a Cech cover of (X,W) by local affine pieces that are mirrors of pairs of pants. We supply a suitable model for the wrapped Fukaya category for a punctured Rimemann surface so that it can also be explicitly computed in a sheaf-theoretic way, from the wrapped Fukaya categories of various pairs of pants in a decomposition. The pieces are glued together in the sense that the restrictions of the wrapped Floer complexes from two adjacent pairs of pants to their adjoining cylindrical piece agree.

#### September 23, 2016:Rob Silversmith "A mirror theorem for symmetric products of projective space"

Abstract: Through 3 general points and 6 general lines in $\mathbb P^3$, there are exactly 190 twisted cubics; 190 is a Gromov-Witten invariant of $\mathbb P^3$. Mirror symmetry is a beautiful conjecture about the structure of all Gromov-Witten invariants of a smooth variety (or orbifold) X. It is also an important step towards solving many interesting and difficult problems, such as Ruan's Crepant Resolution Conjecture, relating the Gromov-Witten invariants of an orbifold to those of a crepant resolution. One of the prime examples of a crepant resolution is the resolution of $Sym^d(\mathbb P^2)$ by the Hilbert scheme of points — this was one of Ruan’s motivating examples. However, mirror symmetry has proved difficult in this case; it is essentially known only for toric orbifolds and some of their complete intersections (after much difficult work). We prove the mirror theorem for $Sym^d(\mathbb P^r)$, and on the way we develop techniques for dealing with nonabelian orbifolds.

#### September 30, 2016: Michael Willis "A Colored Khovanov Homotopy Type"

Abstract: I will use cablings with infinite torus braids to define a Khovanov homotopy type for $sl_2(C)$ colored links and discuss some of its basic properties. In the case of n-colored B-adequate links, I will describe a stabilization of the homotopy types as the coloring n goes to infinity, generalizing the tail behavior of the colored Jones polynomial. In the case of the unknot, I will also describe a simpler argument for stabilization. If time permits, I will also discuss a more recent result regarding stabilization involving more general infinite braids.

#### October 7, 2016: Cheuk Yu Mak "Symplectic log Calabi-Yau surfaces"

Abstract: In this talk, we introduce a symplectic analogue of log Calabi Yau surfaces and classify them up to symplectic deformation equivalence.

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