Recent results showed that the low energy expansion of closed superstring amplitudes can be expressed in terms of single-valued multiple elliptic polylogarithms. I will explain how these functions may be defined as iterated integrals on the torus and sketch how they arise from Feynman integrals.
I will give an introductory account of the zeta-functions for one-parameter families of CY manifolds. The aim of the talk is to point out that the zeta-functions corresponding to singular manifolds of the family correspond to modular forms. In order to give this introductory account I will give a lightning review of finite fields and of the p-adic numbers.
Quadrature is the term for the numerical evaluation of integrals. It's a beautiful subject because it's so accessible, yet full of conceptual surprises and challenges. This talk will review ten of these, with plenty of history and numerical demonstrations. Some are old if not well known, some are new, and two are subjects of my current research.
I will describe a construction of the Weinstein symplectic category of Lagrangian correspondences in the context of shifted symplectic geometry. I will then explain how one can linearize this category starting from a "quantization" of (-1)-shifted symplectic derived stacks: we assign a perverse sheaf to each (-1)-shifted symplectic derived stack (already done by Joyce and his collaborators) and a map of perverse sheaves to each (-1)-shifted Lagrangian correspondence (still conjectural).
In the same way that the classical Torelli theorem determines a curve from its polarized Jacobian we show that moduli spaces of parabolic bundles and parabolic Higgs bundles over a compact Riemann surface X also determine X. We make use of a theorem of Hurtubise on the geometry of algebraic completely integrable systems in the course of the proof. This is a joint work with I. Biswas and T. Gómez
following the joint paper with L.Shaheen http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/zilber/wLb.pdf