Algebra/Topology seminar

Speaker: Bora Yalkinoglu 

Title: Mathematical structures around the Rogers-Ramanujan identities

Abstract: The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction has a long history and is
known to be related to explicit class field theory of imaginary
quadratic fields. We'll explain the appearance of the Rogers-Ramanujan
continued fraction (and some generalizations) in terms of discrete
integrable systems and indicate how this should allow a better
understand of some aspects of explicit class field theory. Our talk
will be of colloquial nature