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SUMMARY:Geometry of vortex moduli spaces
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Nuno M Romano\, Hausdorff Institute Bonn\nThe vortex equations
  unify a number of familiar constructions in\ngauge theory and symplectic 
 geometry -- for example\, on a Riemannian\nsurface they provide a descript
 ion of stable solutions in the\nGinzburg-Landau model of superconductivity
 \, and extend the concept\nof pseudoholomorphic maps in Gromov-Witten theo
 ry to an equivariant\nsetting. In the first part of my talk\, I will revie
 w the general\nsetup for the equations and describe their moduli spaces in
  a few\nspecial examples. In the second part\, I will focus on the natural
 \nL^2-metrics on the moduli spaces of vortices\, and explain some\ntechniq
 ues that have been useful in understanding them.
LOCATION:CM 1 100 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=cm1100
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