Speaker
Minhyong Kim ( University of Oxford, England)
Date & Time
Fri, 21 December 2018, 11:00 to 12:00
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
Principal bundles and their moduli have been important in various aspects of physics and geometry for many decades. It is perhaps not so well-known that a substantial portion of the original motivation for studying them came from number theory, namely the study of Diophantine equations. I will describe a bit of this history and some recent developments.