Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions.

Tim Gowers is one of the world's leading mathematicians. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.

After his lecture Tim will be in conversation with Hannah Fry. Hannah is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. She is also a well-respected broadcaster and the author of several books including the recently published 'Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine.'

This lecture is in partnership with the Science Museum in London where it will take place.  

Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD

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Multiplicative quiver varieties are a variant of Nakajima's "additive" quiver varieties which were introduced by Crawley-Boevey and Shaw.
They arise naturally in the study of various moduli spaces, in particular in Boalch's work on irregular connections. In this talk we will discuss joint work with Tom Nevins which shows that the tautological classes for these varieties generate the largest possible subalgebra of the cohomology ring, namely the pure part.