Notes from Givental's class on Gromov-Witten Theory, Spring 2003

Caveat emptor

Neither I nor Professor Givental have checked these notes for accuracy or completeness. Professor Givental tends to speak extremely fast when lecturing, and consequently taking notes is rather difficult. The notes undoubtedly contain many errors, omissions and notational inconsistencies. If you find any, please tell me and I will fix them.

Background reading

Notes from Givental's Fall 1997 topics course on enumerative geometry can be found here.

Lecture notes

						Notes by	Description	Pictures
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				21 Jan	Lecture 1	Soroosh Yazdani	Outline of the course. Introduction. [Notes not yet available.]
				23 Jan	Lecture 2	Hsian-Hua Tseng	Gromov--Witten theory of a point. String equation, dilaton equation.
				28 Jan	Lecture 3	Tom Coates	More GW theory of a point. Foundations of GW theory.
				30 Jan	Lecture 4	Todor Milanov	Virtual fundamental cycles
				4 Feb	Lecture 5	David Farris	Basics of GW theory. String, divisor and dilaton equations. The topological recursion relations. [Notes not yet available.]
				6 Feb	Lecture 6	Matt Harvey	Interpretation of string, divisor, dilaton equations and TRRs in terms of generating functions. How powerful are the TRRs?[Notes not yet available.]
				11 Feb	Lecture 7	Ben Webster	[Notes not yet available.]
				13 Feb	Lecture 8	Hsian-Hua Tseng
				18 Feb	Lecture 9	Tom Coates	[Notes not yet available.]
				20 Feb	Lecture 10	Todor Milanov	[Notes not yet available.]
				25 Feb	Lecture 11	Tom Coates	[Notes not yet available.]
				27 Feb	Lecture 12	David Farris	[Notes not yet available.]
				4 Mar	Lecture 13	Kevin Purbhoo	[Notes not yet available.]
				6 Mar	Lecture 14	Hsian-Hua Tseng	[Notes not yet available.]
				11 Mar	Lecture 15	Todor Milanov	[Notes not yet available.]

Tom Coates
Last modified: 2 Mar 2003