MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker: Jens Hoppe (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Title: Membrane Theory and Discrete Differential Geometry
Date (JST): Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract: After reviewing some basic aspects of relativistic theories of extended objects I will talk about the recently found dynamical symmetry and reconstruction algebras, as well as explain in detail the matrix description of Lorentzian minimal 3-manifolds and more general discrete analogues of classical differential geometry.