Michael Groechenig (University of Toronto)

Date

Friday February 7, 2025
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Jeffrey Hall, Room 234

Math & Stats Department Colloquium
Friday, February 7, 2025

Time: 2:30 p.m.  Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 234

Speaker: Michael Groechenig (University of Toronto)

Title: Moduli, mirror symmetry and $p$-adic integration

Abstract: I will report on joint work with Wyss \& Ziegler on $p$-adic integration for moduli spaces of Higgs bundles. After introducing Higgs bundles and Hitchin systems we will discuss how $p$-adic integration can be used as a tool to establish mirror symmetry phenomena for these. Subsequently, I will explain how this sheds new light on the Fundamental Lemma (previously proven by Ngô). I will conclude the talk by describing our recent results which apply $p$-adic integration to new kinds of moduli problems and provide a connection to DT-theory.