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Title: Points and Flags
Speaker: Sir Michael Atiyah
Date: Thursday November 10, 2011
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center
Abstract:
I will describe and study a natural map from the configuration space of n distinct ordered points in Euclidean 3-space to the flag manifold of U(n).
I will also describe the generalization to other compact Lie groups.
This lecture is related to, but independent of, my lecture at the Simons Center on Oct 25.