The product of a burly scandanavian with a dream of classifying dynamics, lie groups are one of mathematics' great success stories- completely classified and packaged neatly, these elegant structures now find use in a myriad of research areas; from theoretical physics (lying at the heart of Lisi's G.U.T., as well as tacitly in much and most of quantum mechanics) to the classification of differentiable structures on 4-manifolds (famously used by Donaldson to prove that there are infinitely many inequivalent differentiable structures on , despite there being just one topology) to the study of their structures in their own right.

Join us as Tom Boardman walks us through the bizarre, beautiful and much referenced world of differentiable symmetries. Suitable for absolute beginners. Then we head pubwards.