Algebraic K-theory of algebraic groups is a field that interlaces the structural properties of linear algebraic groups with the deep algebraic invariants encoded in K-groups. At its core, this ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...
Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a basic conjecture about multiplicative inverses. “I’m nearly at the end of the talk, and it’s ...