Seminar series
Date
Wed, 02 Feb 2011
Time
11:30 -
12:30
Location
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Speaker
Nicholas Cooney
Organisation
University of Oxford
I will give an introduction to Kashiwara's theory of crystal bases. Crystals are combinatorial objects associated to integrable modules for quantum groups that, together with the related notion of crystal bases, capture several combinatorial aspects of their representation theory.