Algebra Seminar 2014-15

Seminars are held on Thursdays at 14:00 in Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute

Thursday 2 October 2014, Dmitriy Rumynin, Matsumoto's Construction of Central Extensions of Algebraic Groups
Thursday 9 October 2014, no seminar
Thursday 16 October 2014, Bruce Westbury, On the energy statistic and the cyclic action on invariant tensors
Thursday 23 October 2014, Peng Xu, An introduction to p-modular representations of p-adic groups
Thursday 30 October 2014, Marco Schlichting, Homology stability of special linear groups over rings with many units, and a generalization of a theorem of Matsumoto
Thursday 6 November 2014, Felix Rehren, Generalised dihedral subalgebras from the Monster
Thursday 13 November 2014, Sergey Oblezin, Whittaker functions, Baxter operators and the local Langlands correspondence
Thursday 20 November 2014, SImon Markett, Hermitian K-theory of automorphisms
Thursday 27 November 2014, James Griffin, Homological stability of automorphisms of free products of groups
Thursday 4 December 2014, Maud De Visscher, An introduction to the representation theory of the partition algebra

Thursday 8 January 2015, no seminar
Thursday 15 January 2015, Alex Bartel, Measuring Automorphism Groups
Thursday 22 January 2015, Gareth Tracey, Generating Permutation Groups
Thursday 29 January 2015, Rob Wilson, Was Einstein not even wrong?
Thursday 5 February 2015, Dmitriy Rumynin, 2-characters
Thursday 12 February 2015, Adam Thomas, Generalised representations and the subgroup structure of the exceptional algebraic groups
Thursday 19 February 2015, Karim El Haloui, McNuggets numbers and D-affinity of weighted projective stacks
Thursday 26 February 2015, Gernot Stroth, Large subgroups of Lie type
Thursday 5 March 2015, Heng Xie, Clifford algebras, quadrics and their Witt groups
Thursday 12 March 2015, Maud De Visscher, An introduction to the representation theory of the partition algebra

Thursday 23 April 2015, Alexey Petukhov, Two-sided ideals of U(sl(\infty))
Thursday 30 April 2015, Laura Ciobanu, On Cayley graphs of relatively hyperbolic groups
Thursday 7 May 2015, Matthias Wendt, Buildings and K-theory of elliptic curves
Thursday 14 May 2015, Corneliu Hoffman, Kac-Moody groups and generalisations
Thursday 21 May 2015, Anatol Kirillov, Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics of some quadratic algebras
Thursday 21 May 2015 (extra talk at 11am), Konrad Voelkel, Motivic Cell Structures for 2-Orbit Varieties
Thursday 28 May 2015, Guy Rousseau, Hecke algebras associated to Kac-Moody groups over local fields
Thursday 4 Jun 2015, Grigory Garkusha, Framed motives in use
Thursday 4 Jun 2015 (extra talk at 11am), Helene Sigloch, Vector Bundles over Rigid Analytic Varieties
Thursday 11 Jun 2015, Kevin Hutchinson, Homology of SL_2 of S-integers
Thursday 18 Jun 2015, Daan Krammer, Generalisations of the Tits representation
Thursday 25 Jun 2015, Satya Mandal, Foxby Morphism and Derived Equivalences