Date & Time: Friday, February 27, 2015, 16:00-17:30.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Title: Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups
Speaker: Shripad Garge, IIT Bombay
Abstract: We will discuss simple points on affine varieties and introduce the Lie algebra of a linear algebraic group. We are following chapter 4 of Springer's book on linear algebraic groups.