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Three lectures by Roger Carter |
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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
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Departamento de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra |
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http://www.mat.uc.pt/~cmuc/Carter.html
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Start Date: |
2001-05-15 |
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2001-05-18 |
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-Algebra and Combinatorics
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