Seminar series
Date
Fri, 02 Mar 2018
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Miranda Cheng
Organisation
University of Amsterdam.
The so-called moonshine phenomenon relates modular forms and finite group representations. After the celebrated monstrous moonshine, various new examples of moonshine connection have been discovered in recent years. The study of these new moonshine examples has revealed interesting connections to K3 surfaces, arithmetic geometry, and string theory. In this colloquium I will give an overview of these recent developments.