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Monday, September 8, 2008 - 9:00am

Tony Pantev

University of Pennsylvania

Location

Drexel University

Korman Center 245

I will discuss Topological Quantum Field Theories in two dimensions and their finite dimensional avatars - the Cohomological Quantum Field Theories of Kontsevich and Manin. I will explain how Givental gauging allows one to study geometrically the space parameterizing all CohQFTs associated with a given TQFT. In particular the gauging and the action of the renormalization group flow on this parameter space lead to a reconstruction scheme for higher genus correlators from genus zero ones. I will also discuss the effect of Mirror Symmetry and other string dualities on these spaces.