Pure mathematics seminar: Bogdan Simeonov

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Venue

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Open to

Postgraduates, Staff

Event Details

Speaker: Bogdan Simeonov (Imperial)

Title: The special McKay correspondence and homological mirror symmetry for orbifold surfaces

Abstract: Given a cyclic subgroup G of GL(2,C) acting on C^2, it was first noticed by Wunram in the 80s that there is a correspondence between certain special representations of G and the exceptional curves appearing in the minimal resolution Y of the surface singularity C^2/G. In modern terms, this was reformulated by Ishii and Ueda as the existence of a fully faithful functor from the derived category of sheaves of Y to the G-equivariant derived category of C^2. In this talk, I will describe a mirror symmetric interpretation of this which exhibits the fully faithful inclusion in algebraic geometry as a sequence of positive Lefschetz stabilizations in symplectic geometry.

Contact Details

Name John Haslegrave
Email

j.haslegrave@lancaster.ac.uk

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