June 4 - 16
Summer 2007
VIGRE
Mini-course
Topics
  • Basics of derived categories

  • From vector bundles to the derived category of coherent sheaves

  • Fourier-Mukai transforms

  • Exceptional collections and autoequivalences

  • The McKay correspondence

  • Pi-stability, tiling t-structures and the work of Bridgeland

  • Kontsevich's Homological Mirror Symmetry Conjecture

  • Introduction to Fukaya Categories
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