Departmental Colloquium: Modular forms, physics, and topology, by Daniel Berwick Evans
October 18, 2024
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Daniel Berwick Evans (UIUC): Modular forms, physics, and topology
Modular forms appear in a wide variety of contexts in physics and mathematics. For example, they arise in two dimensional quantum field theories as certain expectation values. In algebraic topology, they emerge in the study of elliptic cohomology theories. A long-standing conjecture suggests that these two appearances of modular forms are intimately related. This talk will provide an introduction to these ideas.
We will have lunch at 1 pm please email schapos@uic.edu if youd like to join.
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Oct 15, 2024
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Oct 15, 2024
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