Seminário de Álgebra e Topologia 

06/03/2008, 16:00 — 17:00 — Sala P3.10, Pavilhão de Matemática
Stavros Papadakis, CAMGSD/IST

An introduction to the McKay correspondence

The original McKay correspondence, due to John McKay in the late 1970s, relates for a finite subgroup $G$ of $\mathrm{SL}(2,C)$ the geometry of the minimal resolution of singularities of the quotient $C^2/G$ with the representation theory of $G$. The talk will be introductory, and will try to discuss both classical and modern approaches to the topic.