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Introduction to Cluster Algebras

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, May 7 2009, 1:10PM

This talk will introduce cluster algebras, focusing on the original definition due to Fomin-Zelevinsky, and the Fomin-Shapiro-Thurston construction of a cluster algebra from a triangulation of a surface.