Root systems and Clifford algebras: from symmetries of viruses to E8 and an ADE correspondence

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talk

Description

Pure Mathematics Colloquium
Period13 Jan 2017
Held atSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Keywords

  • exceptional phenomena
  • sporadic groups
  • E8
  • Clifford algebra
  • root systems
  • Coxeter groups
  • reflection groups
  • spinors