A perspective projection of a dodecahedral tessellation in H3. Four dodecahedra meet at each edge, and eight meet at each vertex, like the cubes of a cubic tessellation in E3.

Title: Degree-d Rational Plane Curves Passing through Generic 3d-1 Points

Speaker: Zhaoyang Liu

Abstract: We will talk about degree‑d rational plane curves through 3d-1 generic points, counted by N_d. Our target is to stetch the proof of Kontsevich’s celebrated recurrence formula, which computes all N_d recursively. We will explain its geometric origin and talk a bit about the moduli spaces and associativity of quantum cohomology.

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