We give a non-technical, elementary introduction to Kontsevich's motivic integration method. At the end of the talk we present recent applications to classification of singularities of real analytic function germs.
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After the seminar we will take the speaker to lunch.
See the Algebra Seminar web page for information about other seminars in the series.
James East jamese@maths.usyd.edu.au
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