Abstract: 

The simply laced Dynkin diagrams, i.e. those of type ADE, have a habit of showing up in all sorts of places. In this talk, I will discuss how they are related to finite subgroups of SL(2,C) this is also known as the McKay correspondence. I will then go on to describe aspects of the geometry related to the McKay correspondence and some of its generalisations. This will mainly be a survey of the topic and will not assume any previous knowledge of algebraic geometry or representation theory.

Speaker

Tarig Abdelgadir

Research Area
Affiliation

University of New South Wales

Date

Tue, 21/03/2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Venue

RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSW