Speaker: Jethro vcn Ekern
Date: 10:30 06/10/2023
Title: Hodge, Poisson and Ramanujan in the context of chiral homology

The theory of chiral homology assigns homology groups to algebraic curves with coefficients in a vertex algebra. Although chiral homology itself is difficult to compute in general, and vertex algebras are somewhat exotic objects, I aim to demonstrate that concrete examples are related in interesting ways to classical themes such as Hodge theory, Poisson geometry and partition counting identities such as those of Rogers-Ramanujan. (Joint work with G. Andrews and R. Heluani)