Seminar series
Date
Tue, 07 Mar 2017
Time
12:00 -
13:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Graeme Segal
Quantization is the study of the interface between commutative and
noncommutative geometry. There are myriad approaches to it, mostly presented
as ad hoc recipes. I shall discuss the motivating ideas, and the relations
between some of the methods, especially the relation between 'deformation'
and 'geometric' quantization.