Introductory chiral algebras: A journey through D-modules, infinity categories, and the Ran space.

Seminar series

Junior Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Date

Fri, 14 Oct 2016
10:00

Location

N3.12

Speaker

Jo French

Organisation

Oxford

We will introduce some ideas from geometric representation theory, including basic D-modules, (a realisation of) infinity categories, and the Ran space, and then go on to define chiral and factorisation algebras.
This talk has no prerequisites.