[geometry-ml:01507] Seminar at Kavli IPMU on 2012 July 20 Morrison

[Satoshi Kondo]

Dear colleagues:

There will be a seminar as follows at Kavli IPMU
(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of
the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
http://ipmu.jp/
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Speaker: David Morrison (UCSB)

Date: 2012 July 20 (Fri) 13:15 - 14:45

Place: Seminar room A, Kavli IPMU

Title: Fermions for mathematicians

Abstract: The manipulations which are used by physicists when
computing with fermions (particularly classical computations) are
sometimes difficult to understand from a mathematical point of view.
We explain a point of view about fermion computations which was
emphasized by Joseph Bernstein in lectures at the Institute for
Advanced Study in 1996, and which is parallel to a familiar point of
view about moduli problems in algebraic geometry.  In an algebraic
geometry moduli problem, it is not enough to have a space whose points
are in one-to-one correspondence with isomorphism classes of algebraic
varieties of a certain kind; rather, one wants a way to parameterize
all algebraic families of algebraic varieties of the given kind, which
leads to a functorial point of view about moduli problems.  The
analogous "functor of points on a supermanifold" is a way to treat
routine fermion computations in a mathematically rigorous manner.
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