Simone Chiarello's (UNIGE, Szenes Group) thesis defense and next steps

24 Aug 2020

Simone defended his PhD thesis on 20th of August 2020, which was entitled "Equivariant intersection theory on the moduli space of rank 2 Higgs bundles". It is the summary of a five year project which allowed, among other things, to find effective residue formulas for the equivariant integrals on the Higgs moduli spaces, and to a new formulation and partial proof of the classical P=W Theorem in rank 2. This approach might be applied to higher ranks as well, for which P=W is still an open problem. After a difficult decision, he decided to quit academia and he is now going to work in a large financial institution in Zurich, although he would like to continue his research work in his spare time.

Phase I & II research project(s)

Geometry, Topology and Physics

New member: Cai Yu (UNIGE, N. Brunner & N. Gisin Group)

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