Speaker: Emanuel Scheidegger
Date: 10:30 17/03/2023
Title:  On attractor points on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds

Abstract:
We briefly review the origin in physics of attractor points on the moduli space of Calabi-Yau threefolds. 
We turn to their mathematical interpretation as special cases of Hodge loci. This leads to fascinating 
conjectures on the modularity of the Calabi-Yau threefolds at these points in terms of their periods and 
L-functions. For hypergeometric one-parameter families of Calabi-Yau threefolds, these conjectures 
can be verified at least numerically to very high precision.