---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: ciclo "Baby Geometri" - promemoria seminario di Tommaso Pacini From: "simone calamai" <simocala@gmail.com> Date: Sun, April 21, 2013 9:29 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ciao a tutti, vi ricordiamo che domani Lunedi' 22 aprile, alle 16:00 in Aula Seminari, ci sarà il seminario dei baby-geometri: - speaker: Tommaso Pacini (SNS di Pisa) - Titolo: Introduction to G2 geometry - Abstract: G2 geometry concerns a geometric structure on 7-dimensional manifolds which is modelled on a standard structure on R^7, related to octonions. I will try to address some basic questions such as: what...? why...? and (most difficult) how...? This talk will serve also as an introduction to a related talk I will give in the CVGMT seminar on wed 24. No prior G2 knowledge assumed. -- Simone (simone.calamai@sns.it) Daniele (angella@mail.dm.unipi.it) www.dm.unipi.it/cluster-pages/angella/baby-geometri/