Special Algebra learning seminar

**Postponed until January, 2014**

Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction to octonions, G2, F4, and triality (I)"

We will be discussing some notes by Shingo Murukami (available online) on exceptional Lie groups (particularly G2 and F4) and their relations to the octonions, including the notion of triality. This will be the first of at least two parts.