Subfactors and Planar Algebras
Speaker:
Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University
Date and Time:
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 2:00pm to 2:50pm
Location:
The Fields Institute
Abstract:
The standard invariant of a subfactor has an algebraic-combinatorial description as a planar algebra, a notion due to Jones. We will explain this notion and discuss some of the classification results obtained by Jones and myself.
