Title: Combinatorial Perspectives in Stringy Geometry
Speaker: Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
Date, Time, Location: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd @4:30PM – 5:30PM in Math Hall 520
Abstract:
I will give a tour of some places in modern mathematical physics where classical combinatorial objects of discrete math arise. More specifically, I will explore how counting points (of various moduli spaces) and surfaces (holomorphic curves) in symplectic topology can be related to the enumeration of graph colorings (chromatic polynomial), triangulations (Catalan numbers) and quiver structures (clusters).
