MA6000P (Graduate Course) : Topics in Geometry

Course information for 2015/16 (Semester 1)


A reading seminar on Vertex Operator Algebras.

Coordinator: Alastair King (4W 3.46) a.d.king@bath.ac.uk

Time: Fridays 10:15 - 12:00.    Place: 4W 1.7 (Wolfson LT).

Fri 9 Oct
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Alastair King
Introduction
Fri 16 Oct
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
David Calderbank
What is .. the Virasoro algebra
Fri 23 Oct
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Fran Burstall
VOAs: computations and example(s)
Fri 30 Oct
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Fran Burstall
The free boson and the Sugawara construction
Fri 6 Nov
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
David Calderbank
Representation theory on Riemann surfaces
Fri 13 Nov
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Claudio Onorati
Segal's definition of CFT
Fri 20 Nov
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Leonard Hardiman
The CIZ ADE classification
Tue 1 Dec
at 1:15 in CB 3.9
Gregory Sankaran
What is .. monstrous moonshine
Fri 4 Dec
at 10:15 in 4W 1.7
Joe Karmazyn
The GKO coset construction

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Alastair King   --   Mathematical Sciences   --   University of Bath Updated 12 Nov 2015