Will Donovan
Talks
- Window shifts and spherical (co)twists
- For Glasgow geometry and topology seminar and Newcastle algebra-geometry seminar on work with Ed Segal.
- Derived automorphisms for
hyper-Kähler manifolds from Heisenberg categorification
- Work in progress.
- Representations of Lie groups
and the eightfold way
- For Edinburgh geometry club.
- Spherical twists and brane transport
- For EGA seminar on work with Ed Segal.
- The McKay correspondence
- Motivational talk for CALF seminar.
- Mirror symmetry and Grassmannian twists
- Rough notes for Warwick algebraic geometry seminar.
- Derived categories and geometry
- Short talk for Imperial post-doctoral forum.
- Derived categories and the projective line
- Short talk for LMS graduate meeting.
Reviews
- Hermitian structures on the derived category of coherent sheaves (José Ignacio Burgos Gil, Gerard Freixas i Montplet, Răzvan Liţcanu)
Less recent talks
- Quantization, representations and Lie groups
- Divisors and blow-ups
- Geometry for curved space
- For sixth-formers at Highgate School.
- Fourier-Mukai theory
- Introduction to sheaf cohomology
- Flops and twists: gentle version (high-tech version)
- Derived categories of coherent sheaves
- Lagrangian intersection Floer homology
- Generalized Dehn twists
- Gromov-Witten invariants (improved version)
- Chern classes
CALF seminar (Imperial, 12 Nov '09):
- Tilting and non-commutative algebras
- Non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants (Ben Davison, Oxford)
- Hyperplane arrangements and homotopy types (Julian Holstein) (alternative notes by Alan Thompson)
- Note that the affine simplicial scheme example here may need some elaboration.
Surveys
- An essay on quantum gravity, focusing on causality, which I wrote while at Cambridge.
Work in progress