题目: Clifford algebras, spinors and index theorems

报告人：Andrei MOROIANU, Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Université Paris-Saclay（法国国家科学研究中心、巴黎萨克雷大学）

时间：2024年12月11日（周三）16: 00-17: 00

地点：东区第五教学楼5107教室

摘要：Can one define a square root of the Laplacian? This naive question will be the starting point for a ride into the fascinating world of index theory, involving topology, geometry, representation theory, and analysis.

报告人简介： 

Andrei Moroianu graduated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1995 and got his PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1996. He works for the CNRS since 1997, and his research topic is differential geometry. Since 2017 he is based at the Paris-Saclay University. He was awarded the Peccot Lecture at the Collège de France in 1998 and he held lectures at the Ecole Polytechnique from 2004 to 2016. Since 2021 he gives the Differential Geometry lecture to the CFMath in USTC.