Wild Hitchin systems, quiver varieties, and Kac-Moody algebras (Part I)
Speaker:
Dan Xie, Harvard University
Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Bahen Building, Room 1180
Abstract:
Wild Hitchin systems are Hitchin systems with irregular singularities. I will classify those wild Hitchin systems which define four-dimensional $N=2$ superconformal field theories. One can associate two hyperkahler manifolds to these Hitchin systems, and they have interesting connections to quiver varieties, compound Du Val singularities, and Kac-Moody algebras.