Seminars Fall 2007
All talks are at 1:30 in Concordia's downtown Library Building, 1400 Blvd. de Maisonneuve O in
Room LB-921-04.
- 19 Sept John McKay: Moonshine - what it is - and what we would like to know.
Abstract: an introduction to Moonshine.
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3 Oct
Alex Maloney: Physics and the Monster: Quantum Gravity, Modular Forms and Faber Polynomials.
pdf file of the slides from the talk.
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10 Oct
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17 Oct
Chris Cummins: Hecke operators, replication and moonshine.
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24 Oct
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31 Oct
John Harnad: An introduction to tau functions.
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7 Nov
Terry Gannon: title to be announced.
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28 Nov
Iana Anguelova: Introduction to Vertex algebras
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Monday 3 Dec (Note change of day)
Eckhard Meinrenken: Twisted K-homology and the Verlinde formulas