- Series
- Representation Theory, Moduli, and Physics Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Tommaso Maria Botta – Columbia University – https://www.math.columbia.edu/~tmbotta/
- Organizer
- Anton Zeitlin
Quiver varieties provide a fundamental bridge between representation theory, enumerative geometry, and physics. From 3d mirror symmetry, any quiver variety comes with a dual variety known as the Coulomb branch. A conjecture proposed by Bullimore-Dimofte-Gaiotto-Hilburn-Kim and, independently, Okounkov, asserts that the cohomology of the moduli space of quasimaps to a quiver variety admits a canonical action by the quantized coordinate ring of the dual BFN Coulomb branch. In this talk, I will report on progress on refining this conjecture and proving it. The construction relies on a -1 shifted symplectic structure on the moduli space of quasimaps and the theory of cohomological Hall algebras. Based on work in preparation with Spencer Tamagni.