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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 4:30pm

Nigel Hitchin

Oxford

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

The talk is about finding the vertices of an icosahedron on the nodal set of a degree three spherical harmonic, but it involves Mukai's Fano threefold V_22 and Atiyah's classifiction of vector bundles on an elliptic curve.