Speaker:
Assistant Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev
Institution:
UC Riverside
Time:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 1:00pm
Location:
RH 306
Problems of deformation theory are often motivated by questions from physics. In my talk I will first consider deformation theory of an associative algebra. Then I will describe a problem of deformation quantization and formulate Kontsevich's
result which closes this problem with a positive answer. Finally, I will talk about the application of Kontsevich's quantization to the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture.