Seminar series
Date
Mon, 12 Nov 2007
Time
11:00 -
12:00
Location
L3
Speaker
James Sparks
Organisation
Oxford
Abstract: I will give an introduction to, and overview of, the AdS/CFT correspondence from a geometric perspective. As I hope to explain, the correspondence leads to some remarkable relationships between string theory, conformal field theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry and combinatorics.