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SUMMARY:Conformal Geometry\, its Beauty and Power in Physics and Cosmology
  - Prof. Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford)
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CONTACT:Yuhan Gao
DESCRIPTION:(Free for members\, £2 for non-members)\n\nThe ancient geomet
 ry of Euclid and its curved-space generalizations due to Gauss and Riemann
  are built upon a notion of (infinitesimal) distance. Somewhat less attent
 ion has been paid to the slightly more general geometry based simply upon 
 the local notion of angle\, referred to as conformal geometry. It involves
  many elegant theorems\, and has direct applications to Einstein’s speci
 al relativity and to Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. It is also centra
 l to a new view of the cosmological universe.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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