Bott periodicity, algebro-geometrically

Name: Bott periodicity, algebro-geometrically
Start: 2021-10-05T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

When: October 5, 2021

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Ravi Vakil - Stanford University

I will report on joint work with Hannah Larson, and joint work in progress with Jim Bryan, in which we try to make sense of Bott periodicity from a naively algebro-geometric point of view.

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