Representations of the MONSTER
 
 
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.
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Date:  2001-05-15
Start Time:   14:30
Speaker:  Roger Carter (Univ. Warwick, UK)
Place:  Sala 5.5
Research Groups: -Algebra and Combinatorics
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