Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 30 април 2025 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Binary Quadratic Forms and Conway’s Topographs (Lecture 1 of 3) ще изнесе Nikita Kalinin, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Следващите две лекции ще бъдат на 07.05.2025 и 14.05.2025 от 16:00 ч. Abstract: Binary quadratic forms are as elementary as they are mysterious—much like prime numbers. In 1997, John Conway introduced topographs, a powerful geometric tool that provides a geometric visualization of binary quadratic forms and their values. These lectures will explore how topographs, combined with telescoping summation techniques, yield elegant formulas — some with intuitive geometric interpretations. For instance, consider the following result: Let [...]

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 4 ДЕКЕМВРИ 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Tropical compactifications of moduli spaces - Part 2 ще изнесе Лайънъл Ланг, Международен център по математически науки (МЦМН - София). Abstract: In this talk I will describe various tropical compactifications of the moduli spaces of curves. I will discuss some motivations and applications coming from tropical geometry (joint with M. Melo, J. Rau and F. Viviani). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 27 ноември 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Tropical compactifications of moduli spaces ще изнесе Лайънъл Ланг, Международен център по математически науки (МЦМН - София). Abstract: In this talk I will describe various tropical compactifications of the moduli spaces of curves. I will discuss some motivations and applications coming from tropical geometry (joint with M. Melo, J. Rau and F. Viviani). Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 15 май 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Hyperbolic amoebas ще изнесе Михаил Школников, ИМИ - БАН. Abstract: Classical amoebas serve as a tool to study algebraic varieties and as one of the entry points to tropical geometry. The original definition involves a logarithmic projection of a subvariety of a complex algebraic torus, which can be interpreted as forgetting the phase, i.e. the arguments of complex numbers. In group-theoretic terms, this projection map may be thought of as passing to the quotient by the maximal compact subgroup. Suppose one replaces the algebraic torus with a complex three-dimensional matrix group. In that case, [...]

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 24 април 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403: Доклад на тема Generalised Plucker formula ще изнесе Андрей Бенгуш-Ласние, МЦМН. Abstract: In order to classify objects in singularity theory and algebraic geometry, we define invariants associated to varieties or germs of singularities and hope to have enough tools to compute them easily. From classical projective duality, for any variety X , we can define a dual variety X∗ and we call the class of X the degree of X∗ . Plücker’s formula allows one to compute this class for plane curves with a certain set of nodes, cusps and tacnodes. We will start our talk by recalling the [...]

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 27 март 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403: Доклад на тема Reading seminar of geometric Lubin-Tate theory ще изнесе Jiachang Xu, ИМИ - БАН. Abstract: This is reading seminar of geometry of Lubin-Tate theory, our goal is to understand the papers “M. J. Hopkins and B. H. Gross, Equivariant vector bundles on the Lubin-Tate moduli space” and “Ramero, Lorenzo On a class of étale analytic sheaves”. The first seminar we plan to go over the basis of deformation theory, formal group and necessary rigid geometry. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 20 март 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403: Доклад на тема Ellipsoid superpotentials: obstructing symplectic embeddings by singular algebraic curves ще изнесе Григори Михалкин, Женевски университет. Abstract: How singular can be a local branch of a plane algebraic curve of a given degree d? A remarkable series of real algebraic curves was constructed by Stepan Orevkov. It is based on even-indexed numbers in the Fibonacci series: a degree 5 curve with a 13/2 cusp, a degree 13 curve with a 34/5-cusp, and so on. We discuss this and other series of algebraic curves in the context of the problem of symplectic packing of an ellipsoid into a ball, with [...]

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 28 февруари 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Linear embeddings of complex Grassmannians ще изнесе Иван Пенков, Constructor University Bremen. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09 Abstract: A linear embedding of Grassmannians, one of which could possibly be isotropic, is an embedding which respects the generators of Picard groups. Several years ago A.S. Tikhomirov and I classified such embeddings when both Grassmannians are simultaneously usual Grassmannians or isotropic Grassmannians of the same type(orthogonal or symplectic). In this talk I will discuss also the mixed case. A classification as above has an application to the classification of infinite-dimensional linear ind-Grassmannians, and I shall  briefly explain this [...]

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 14 февруари 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Refined curve counting ще изнесе Михаил Школников, ИМИ - БАН. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09 Abstract: Refining an enumerative problem upgrades the numerical solution to a polynomial so that its specialization gives the original number. A prototypical example of such refinement arises in the tropical curve counting from replacing Mikhalkin multiplicities, corresponding to counting complex curves, with Block-Goettsche multiplicities. I will speak about the invariance of this count and its various interpretations.

Следващата сбирка на Семинара по геометрия на МЦМН ще се проведе в сряда, 7 февруари 2024 г. от 16:00 ч. в зала 403 и онлайн в Zoom: Доклад на тема Introduction to curve counting ще изнесе Михаил Школников, ИМИ - БАН. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83740034721?pwd=VnBtcVpGUktscHQ4a09jZkNZTURyZz09 Abstract: This talk is intended as a very gentle introduction to the classical subject of enumerative geometry concerned with problems of counting algebraic curves with prescribed properties. In the realm of classical planimetry, we know that there exists a single circle passing through a collection of three points, provided that these points are generic. Here “generic” simply means that the points are not collinear, i.e. don’t belong to the same line but could refer to some other open condition in [...]