Event time:
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Ivan Ip
Speaker affiliation:
Yale University
Event description:
In this talk, I will describe how various special functions are obtained from matrix coefficients in group representation, and discuss their q-deformed versions in the Representation Theory of Quantum Groups, in particular the very important quantum dilogarithm function.