Non-Kahler Degenerations of Calabi-Yau Threefolds

To be held at ESB 2012 and on Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68285564037?pwd=R2ZpLy9uc2pUYldHT3laK3orakg0dz09
Meeting ID: 682 8556 4037
Passcode: 636252

Reception and refreshments at 14:30 in the PIMS lounge, ESB 4th floor.

It was proposed in the works of Reid in the mathematics literature and Candelas-Green-Hubsch in the string theory literature to connect Calabi-Yau threefolds with different topologies by a process which degenerates 2-cycles and introduces new 3-cycles. This operation may connect a Kahler Calabi-Yau threefold to a non-Kahler complex manifold with trivial canonical bundle. In this talk, we will discuss the geometrization of this process by special non-Kahler metrics. We will survey joint works with T.C. Collins, B. Friedman, C. Suan, and S.-T. Yau.