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What are exterior differential systems good for?
Exterior differential systems (EDS) is a set of geometric techniques for studying systems of partial differential equations. I will discuss applications of EDS and local differential geometry to the study of the complexity of matrix multiplication and the classification of complex simple Lie algebras. I will also discuss secant varieties and Vogel's conjectured "universal Lie algebra" and their relations to the other topics.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 445 Altgeld Hall, 2:00 p.m.
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