The Other Pure Seminar (TOPS): An introduction to spin geometry (2 of 3)

Speaker: Michael Albanese

Title: An introduction to spin geometry

Abstract: Atiyah once said that only God knows what a spinor is, except maybe Dirac, but he's no longer with us. Spinors are the subject of spin geometry and I will fail to make the audience understand them. But as always, there is much to learn from every failure. In this case, we will learn about Clifford algebras, the spin group, some representation theory, and the Dirac operator.