Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Random trees and moduli of curves

 

Andrei Okounkov

Berkeley
 
 

MIT

Thursday, November 8, 2001

 

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-190

Tea from 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-290
Refreshments afterwards, in Room 2-290


 

Abstract:   I will explain how some basic theory of random trees can be used for some rather advanced algebro-geometric computations, namely to prove Kontsevich's formula for intersection numbers on the moduli spaces of curves.


 
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