Synopses & Reviews
Graduate lectures on the interface between mathematics and physics.
Review
'The presented selection of the best survey lectures among many graduate workshops held in Adelaide treats very interesting topics for current research and can be recommended to all readers interested in this modern field of mathematics.' European Mathematical Society
Synopsis
Presents topics currently of great interest, generally at the interface between mathematics and physics, and also where suitable expositions did not previously exist at a level suitable for graduate students.
Table of Contents
1. Applications of equivariant cohomology to symplectic geometry and moduli spaces L. Jeffrey and F. Kirwan; 2. Quantum groups: a survey of definitions, motivations and results A. Ram; 3. Spinon decomposition and Yangian structure of sln modules P. Bouwknegt and K. Schoutens; 4. Geometry and the integer quantum Hall effect P. McCann; 5. L2 invariants of covering spaces V. Mathai; 6. Combinatorics of solvable lattice models, and modular representations of Hecke algebras O. Foda et al.