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. |