| ABSTRACT |
The 3-dimensional mirror symmetry is a certain powerful set of ideas originating in modern high energy physics that equates seemingly disparate computations in two mirror quantum field theories. These physical ideas can be projected to mathematics in many different ways, and various mathematical implications, generalizations, and analogies of the fundamental physics predictions are currently being studied by many groups of researchers around the world. The goal of my two lectures will be to give a gentle brief (and, as a result, one-sided) introduction to this subject with a view towards applications in enumerative geometry and, time permitting, automorphic forms. |
