Monday, February 08, 2021, 09:00am - 10:00am
Topological recursion is a powerful machinery that allows one to compute all kinds of enumerative invariants, such as intersection numbers, Gromov-Witten invariants, DT invariants etc. I will give an example-based introduction based on the Airy function, which encodes intersection numbers on the moduli space of stable curves as seen in the Witten conjecture, the work of Mirzakhani, and JT gravity.
