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| Lecture Series by A. Okounkov |
University of Miami Abstract: Witten's conjecture of 1991 evaluates certain intersection numbers on the moduli spaces of curves using the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Several mathematical approaches to this statement were found, the first one due to Kontsevich. Recently, rather dramatic shortcuts to the goal were discovered. I will explain one of them, following the work of Lando and Kazarian. My aim is to make the lectures self-contained and accessible to general mathematical audience.
Department of Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecture Series
Dr. Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Recipient of a Fields Medal in 2006
will present
Recent Shortcuts to Witten's Conjecture
Monday, February 19, 2007, 4:00pm in Ungar Room 402
Friday, February 23, 2007, 4:30pm in Ungar Room 402
Refreshments served 30 minutes before each talk in Ungar Room 521
All interested persons are welcome to attend.
Andrei Okounkov was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 "for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry".
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