Orateur
Mark Gross
Description
I will try to provide some context and background for recent
breakthroughs by Siebert and myself involving constructions of mirrors to
various types of varieties. In particular, I will give a gentle
introduction to logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory and explain how log GW
invariants can be used to generalize constructions of Gross-Siebert and
Gross-Hacking-Keel to give a very general mirror symmetry construction.
Suggested background reading is our survey/announcement paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00624, and background on log geometry that
should be useful for the talks can be found in Chapter 3 of my book,
"Tropical geometry and mirror symmetry".
