Speaker:  Jae Hee Lee (MIT)

Title:  Quantum power operations for symplectic resolutions

Abstract:  Equivariant quantum connections of a special class of varieties known as symplectic resolutions are objects of representation-theoretic interest. We study the mod p reductions of these connections using symplectic Gromov—Witten theory, and identify their p-curvature with the quantum Steenrod operations. If time allows, I will also discuss work-in-progress for analogous results in quantum K-theory (that part is joint with Shaoyun Bai).