SCHEDULE
Octonions Seminar - Spring 2002

A rough schedule appears below. Major changes will be recorded here; also check the announcements page.
Day
Topic
1
1/31
Complex Numbers:
   phases
Quaternions:
   commutativity
   vectors
2
2/7
Octonions:
   associativity
   alternativity
   division algebras
3
2/14
Rotations:
   flips
   automorphisms
4
2/21
Lorentz Transformations:
   spacetime vectors
   Hermitian matrices
   rotations and boosts
5
2/28
Spinors:
   null vectors
   Hopf maps
   Lorentz transformations
6
3/7
Spin:
   angular momentum
   eigenvalues
   simultaneous measurement
3/14
no seminar
3/21
no seminar

7
3/28
Dirac Equation:
   motivation
   gamma matrices
8
4/4
Dirac Equation:
   momentum space
   quaternionic Weyl equation
9
4/11
Dirac Equation:
   particles
   generations
4/18
no seminar
10
4/25
Exceptional Jordan Algebra:
   3x3 eigenvalue problem
   E6 (the group)
11
5/2
The Future:
   interactions
   quarks?