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Werner Nahm (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
Thursday 25 September 2025, 16:45-17:30
CFT x 2
- đ¤ Speaker: Werner Nahm (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 25 September 2025, 16:45 - 17:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
One of the many merits of P. Goddard is his contribution to the integration of quantum field theory in the mainstream of modern mathematics. His work led to beautiful links between geometry, the Lie algebras of infinite dimensional groups and modular partition functions, all in CFT , which to a physicist means conformal field theory. To a mainstream mathematician, CFT means class field theory and concerns number fields and their Galois groups. We have become used to miracles involving moonshine, mock modular forms and all that, but it is worth a smile that another deep connection seems to be epitomized by this alphabetic coincidence.
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