Enumerative geometry of higher genus curves on quintic threefolds
-- Felix Janda, February 7, 2020

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Quintic threefolds are one of the simplest classes of Calabi-Yau
threefolds, and have been studied from many perspectives. In particular,
they have been a rich source of enumerative problems, starting from
Schubert's count of lines on a generic quintic threefold, and with
renewed interest after surprising predictions of string theorists.

In my talk, I will introduce a new approach (joint with Q. Chen, S. Guo
and Y. Ruan) toward computing Gromov-Witten counts of higher genus
curves on quintic threefolds (and more general complete intersections).