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For the Spring 2020 Quarter all seminars will be hosted online over Zoom. Links can be obtained by emailing event organizers - those email links will be provided as events are posted. We look forward to continuing our sharing and collaborating.

Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota Mysterious Duality   “Mysterious Duality” was suggested by Iqbal, Neitzke, and Vafa in 2001. They noticed that (already mysterious for any mathematician) toroidal compactifications of M-theory lead to the same series of combinatorial objects as del Pezzo surfaces (equally…