Thursday, March 16, 2017 1:30 pm
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1:30 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Anthony McCormick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The Classification of Simple Lie Algebras Part 1: Roots"
We'll begin proceeding towards our main goal for this semester: the classification of simple Lie algebras (and also simple linear algebraic groups) by Dynkin diagrams. Our first goal is to understand the notion of a root. We will then outline the basic strategy before analyzing the rank one scenario.
MC 5413