Speaker: Andrei Okounkov (Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, Fields Medalist)

Time: 16:30—17:30, October 12, 2013

Place: Lecture Hall, Second Floor, Jia Yi Bing Building, 82 Jing Chun Yuan, PKU

Abstract: This will be an introduction into some aspects of the mysterious 11-dimensional M-theory and to mathematical attempts to describe it for certain special 11-manifolds.