| Date | Feb 06, 2017 |
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| Speaker | Jethro van Ekeren |
| Dept. | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
| Room | 129-406 |
| Time | 10:00-11:30 |
The aim of this talk is to describe a very simplified picture of the mathematical formalism of quantum field theory and, with that as motivation, to arrive at the notion of vertex algebra. I will introduce the first nontrivial example of vertex algebra, namely the free boson.
