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Speaker: Dr. Swarnava Mukhopadhyay
Title: Conformal blocks, strange duality and the moduli space of curves.
Abstract: Conformal blocks are refined invariants of tensor product of
representations of a Lie algebra that give a special class of vector
bundles on the moduli space of curves. In this talk, I will introduce
conformal blocks and explore connections to questions in algebraic
geometry and representation theory. I will also focus on some ``strange"
dualities in representation theory and how they give equalities of divisor
classes on the moduli space of curves.