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Graduate Students Seminar


2:15pm Wednesday 4 June 2003

Brett Witty
MSI

Monstrous Moonshine

We will give an informal tour through the history of the famous Monstrous Moonshine conjecture and some of the exceptional structures involved. An overview will be given of the proof of the conjecture by Richard Borcherds which earnt him a Fields Medal in 1998.




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