Three lectures by Roger Carter

Description: The MONSTER is the largest of the sporadic finite simple groups. In 1979 Conway and Norton published a remarkable conjecture relating representations of the MONSTER to the theory of modular forms. In 1998 Borcherds was awarded a Fields Medal for (among other things) his proof of the Conway-Norton conjecture, using the theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras. The purpose of these lectures is to explain the Conway-Norton conjecture and to outline Borcherds' proof of it. Speaker(s): Roger Carter Area(s): Place:   Departamento de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra URL:  http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cmuc/Carter.html Start Date:   2001-05-15 End Date:   2001-05-18 Research Groups: -Algebra and Combinatorics See more:   <Main>