Mathematics Program Presents
Adinkras for Combinatorialists
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Hegeman 308
A lecture by Yan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Adinkras are graphical tools created for the study of representations in supersymmetry. Besides having inherent interest for physicists, adinkras offer many easy-to-state and accessible open problems for mathematicians from different trades (by the end of the talk, I will have pretended to have known stuff about Clifford algebras, posets, coding theory, switching graphs, and algebraic topology...), but especially combinatoralists! I will include my original results, but mostly, I just want to share my enthusiasm for these pretty objects. No specialist knowledge required.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Location: Hegeman 308