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What's the deal with Spiders?
Student-Run Research| Speaker: | Cody Strouse, UC Davis |
| Location: | 1147 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 28 2026, 2:10PM |
Description
We take a walk through the representation theories of three structures: finite groups, lie algebras, and quantum groups, using the notion of hopf algebras as a guiding framework. Of particular interest will be the study of invariant spaces. We conclude by discussing Kuperberg's "Spiders" - a diagrammatic model for operations on spaces of invariants in the quantum setting.