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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:30pm

Wenxuan Lu

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 3C8

Note: the in-house talks this semester will take place mostly on Thursdays.

I will explain why Hitchin’s equations and spectral curves are important to our topics. I will focus on the physical and higher dimensional origins of them instead of purely mathematical motivations.