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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ronan Conlon (UT Dallas)\n\nTitle: Asymptotically coni
 cal Calabi-Yau manifolds\n\nAbstract: Geometers are interested in finding 
 the "nicest" shape that a manifold can have. For surfaces\, this shape is 
 usually the most symmetric\, like the round sphere or the flat plane. In g
 eneral there are different ways of characterizing precisely what a "nice" 
 manifold is. In this talk I will focus on one such class of manifolds\, na
 mely "Ricci-flat Kahler" or "Calabi-Yau" manifolds. In the 1970's\, Yau pr
 oved that a compact Kahler manifold with vanishing first Chern class is Ca
 labi-Yau\, thereby proving a famous conjecture of Calabi. I will discuss e
 xtensions of Yau’s theorem to the non-compact world before discussing re
 cent joint work with Hans-Joachim Hein (Muenster) classifying such manifol
 ds modelled on a cone at infinity.
LOCATION:Ayres Hall\, Fourth floor
SUMMARY:Mathematics Colloquium
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utk.edu/event/mathematics_colloquium_7665
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