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SUMMARY:Symplectic resolutions of Higgs Bundles  - Andrea Tirelli (Imperia
 l)
DTSTART:20161111T150000Z
DTEND:20161111T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Symplectic resolutions have been defined by A. Okounkov as the
  “Lie algebras of the 21ˢᵗ century”. Indeed\, their study uses meth
 ods from geometry\, algebra and representation theory. In the first part o
 f the talk I will give the definition of a symplectic resolution\, mention
  some properties and describe some examples\, such as the Springer resolut
 ion and Nakajima Quiver varieties. In the second part of the talk I will d
 escribe how a recent result of Schedler and Bellamy concerning symplectic 
 resolutions of character varieties can be used to obtain a nice result abo
 ut the existence of symplectic resolution in the case of the moduli space 
 of Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve. 
LOCATION:MR13
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