Monday, April 9, 2012 4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Speaker:
Philip Candelas, University of Oxford
Abstract:
There are two groups of people, string theorists and number theorists, who believe that they 'own' the periods of Calabi-Yau manifolds. I will explain why the periods are important to each of these nonintersecting groups. I wish to speculate also about the possible role of `quantum corrections' and mirror symmetry to the zeta function.