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Title:
Monodromy presentations via mirror symmetry

Speaker:
Gabe Kerr

Abstract:
I will explain how the minimal model program of toric varieties and stacks yields presentations of mapping class groups. The relationship between these two subjects factors through mirror symmetry and provides a new picture of how to relate elementary birational maps with components of degenerations of symplectic manifolds. This is joint work with C. Diemer and L. Katzarkov.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=485

Workshop:
Simons- Workshop 2012-2013ay - Symplectic and Low Dimensional Topologies in Interaction