monstrous moonshine

Symmetry and Beyond

Prof. Jiping Zhang

Nov 29, 15:00 - 16:00

B3 L5 R5220

symmetry groups symmetric polynomials monstrous moonshine

A fascination with symmetric forms seems to be an innate feature of human perception and for millennia it has influenced art and natural philosophy. The concept of symmetry is one of the very few on which mathematicians and physicists agree, namely that Symmetry ≡ Groups. We describe some special symmetries and related problems including symmetric polynomials and monstrous moonshine.