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SUMMARY:At Moller Institute: The truth and more about what comes after Cap
 pelli-Itzykson-Zuber's A-D-E - Terry Gannon (University of Alberta)
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DESCRIPTION:One of the more celebrated results in Conformal Field Theory i
 s the classification by Cappelli-Itzykson-Zuber in 1987 of the theories wi
 th sl(2) symmetry. They found that it falls mysteriously into an A-D-E pat
 tern. A few years later the analogous result for sl(3) was obtained\; thes
 e have a mysterious connection with Jacobians of Fermat curves. Until rece
 ntly\, very little else was known. My talk describes the history of the pr
 oblem\, and the recent breakthrough. And it will ask for your help in seei
 ng what comes after A-D-E and Fermat curves!&nbsp\;
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