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In this DG, Sam Playle will give us an introduction to some of the mathematical aspects of classical and quantum electromagnetism. These beautiful theories were some of the motivating examples behind the study of gauge theories whereby considerations of the local symmetries of a field theory give rise to conservation laws. Due to the work of Atiyah and Donaldson these ideas in fact had a number of surprising applications to mathematics, in particular on the topology of 4-manifolds. If this gets your electrons excited then come along to MS.05 at 7:30 to hear more. | ||
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Start: 19:30
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For the last discussion group of the year, we take a look at the famous solution of Fermat's Last Theorem, arguably one of the greatest achievements of 20th century mathematics. The proof involves an amazing amount of fascinating mathematics and, among other things, led to the groundbreaking "modularity theorem". Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm as we explore the underlying concepts and unfold the brilliant ideas that formed the proof of the theorem (in an informal and accessible manner, while still maintaining the amount of detail needed to actually get an idea of what's going on). | ||
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