ONLINE COURSES by Artan Sheshmani, Ernesto Lupercio, Tony Yue YU

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Course by Artan Sheshmani (Harvard University/ IMSA) 

Talk 1
TITLE: Stable higher rank flag sheaves on surfaces

Talk 2
TITLE: Atiyah class and sheaf counting on local Calabi-Yau 4 folds. 

Abstract: We discuss Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants of torsion sheaves with 2 dimensional support on a smooth projective surface in an ambient non-compact Calabi Yau fourfold given by the total space of a rank 2 bundle on the surface. We prove that in certain cases, when the rank 2 bundle is chosen appropriately, the universal truncated Atiyah class of these codimension 2 sheaves reduces to one, defined over the moduli space of such sheaves realized as torsion codimension 1 sheaves in a noncompact divisor (threefold) embedded in the ambient fourfold. Such reduction property of universal Atiyah class enables us to relate our fourfold DT theory to a reduced DT theory of a threefold and subsequently then to the moduli spaces of sheaves on the base surface. We finally make predictions about modularity of such fourfold invariants when the base surface is an elliptic K3.

Course by Ernesto Lupercio  (Cinvestav)
TITLE: An introductory mini.course into Quantum Toric Geometry

Abstract: We will introduce the foundations of Quantum Toric Geometry as developed by Katzarkov, Lupercio, Meersseman and Verjovsky, Quantum
toric geometry is a generalization of toric geometry where irrational fans correspond to non-commutative spaces called quantum toric
varieties. As non-commutative spaces, Quantum toric varieties are to usual toric varieties what the Quantum torus is to the usual torus.
Lecture 1 
1. Introduction
2. Stacks and non-commutative spaces
3. The quantum torus
4. Quantum toric varieties.
Lecture 2 
1. LVM theory
2. Quantum GIT
3. Moduli spaces of toric varieties.

References: It is useful to be familiar with toric varieties (for example the book of Fulton).
A bit of stacks can be useful (https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306176)
a)    https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2774
b)   https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03876

Course by Tony Yue YU  (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay)
TITLE:  Frobenius structure conjecture and moduli of Calabi-Yau pairs. 

Abstract: I will explain the Frobenius structure conjecture of Gross-Hacking-Keel in mirror symmetry, and an application towards the moduli space of Calabi-Yau pairs. I will show that the naive counts of rational curves in an affine log Calabi-Yau variety U, containing an open algebraic torus, determine in a simple way, a mirror family of log Calabi-Yau varieties, as the spectrum of a commutative associative algebra equipped with a multilinear form. The structure constants of the algebra are constructed via counting non-archimedean analytic disks in the analytification of U. Furthermore, I will introduce a generalization of the Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky secondary fan, and show that the mirror family admits a natural compactification and extension over the toric variety associated to the secondary fan, which generalizes the families previously studied by Kapranov-Sturmfels-Zelevinsky and Alexeev in the toric case. We conjecture that this gives rise to a (nearly uni) versal family of polarized Calabi-Yau pairs (embedded in the moduli space of KSBA stable pairs), and has a surprising consequence that such moduli space is unirational. We prove the stability in dimension two. This is based on arXiv:1908.09861 joint with S. Keel, and arXiv:2008.02299 joint with Hacking and Keel.