Think and Live Adventurously!

 


Renzo Cavalieri
Colorado State University,
Department of Mathematics
Weber Building
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1874
USA
Tel: (970) 491-6283
FAX: (970) 491-2161
Office: Weber 113

Email: renzo@math.colostate.edu

 


 

My mathematical history
The beginning of the story (semi-serious)

Some mathematical writings


Activities:

 

FRAGMENT Seminar (CSU-CU seminar)

WAGS (Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium)


Activities past:

Mini Workshop on Affine Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry (May 2008)
Banff Conference "Recent Progress in the Study of the Moduli Space of Curves" (March 2008)
Mini-workshop on D-bundles and Integrable Hierarchies(Spring 2007)
Mini-workshop on the Moduli Spaces of Curves and Gromov-Witten Theory(Spring 2006)


Some Research Talks:

Wall Crossings for Double Hurwitz Numbers
GW([C^3/Z_3])
Evaluating Tautological Classes Using Only Hurwitz Numbers

A layman point of view on Mirror

A look into the mirror I: an overview of Mirror Symmetry.
A look into the mirror II: the quintic.


Orbifold Gromov-Witten Theory:
A mini-course at Sissa (Trieste), for the conference
"From topological strings to integrable hierarchies and back"


Lecture 1: Gromov-Witten theory: basic notions.
Lecture 2: Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory and G-Hodge integrals.
Lecture 3: Givental's formalism and CCIT's work.
Lecture 4: Open orbifold invariants.


OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:

Introduction to Moduli Spaces:
A cycle of lectures at Universidad de Costa Rica

Lecture 1: Enumerative Geometry and Moduli Spaces
Lecture 2: Grassmannians and Stable Curves
Lecture 3: Gromov-Witten Theory and Kontsevich's Formula

 

Mini Talks:

Oh The Places You'll Go! (A journey from Physics to Combinatorics)

Where Parallel Lines Meet




Teaching

Fall 2009

570 Graduate Topology

161 Calculus II  


Fall 2008

472 Introduction to Topology

281 Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning




Non professional:

My Summer Travels 2006

Costa Rica 2007



I love to dance with beautiful Sylvia!



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