C.S. Seshadri turned seventy on the 29th of February, 2002. To mark this occasion, a symposium was held in Chennai, India, where some of his colleagues gave expository talks highlighting Seshadri's contributions to mathematics. This volume includes expanded texts of these talks as well as research and expository papers on geometry and representation theory. It will serve as an excellent reference for researchers and students in these areas.

This collection of articles gives glimpses of research in several areas of mathematics and physics. The articles contain both expository material and some new results, and should be useful to both beginning graduate students as well as more advanced readers.

"The aim of this book is to give an introduction to what has come to be known as Standard Monomial Theory (SMT). SMT deals with the construction of nice bases of finite dimensional irreducible representations of semi-simple algebraic groups or, in geometric terms, nice bases of coordinate rings of flag varieties (and their Schubert subvarieties) associated to these groups. The book is a reproduction of a course of Lectures given by the author in 1983-84 which appeared in the Brandeis Lecture Notes series."--BOOK JACKET.

Gérard G. Emch, b. 1936, mathematical physicist and quantum mechanic; contributed articles.