University of Sydney

Algebra Seminars 2000

March
Friday 10th	Ben Martin	Representations into a reductive subgroup of a reductive group.
Friday 17th	Emmanuel Letellier	Stability theory and algebraic geometry.
Friday 24th	Robert Moody	Quasiperiodicity and diffraction.
Friday 31th	Henning Andersen	Tilting modules I.
April
Friday 7th	Toru Umeda	Capelli identities from various viewpoints.
Friday 14th	Henning Andersen	Tilting modules II.
Friday 21st	Good Friday - no seminar
Friday 28th	Willian Stein	Designer Magma.
May
Friday 5th	Ezra Getzler	Deformation theory of Poisson brackets and Gromov-Witten invariants in higher genus.
Friday 12th	Bob Howlett	Automorphisms of Coxeter groups.
Friday 19th	Andrew Mathas	Equating decomposition numbers for different primes.
Friday 26th	Alex Molev	Irreducibility conditions for tensor products of gl(n)-modules.
June
Friday 2nd	Ruth Corran	Decision problems in braid group like settings.
July
Friday 14th	Anthony Henderson	Applications of character sheaves.
Friday 21st	Ruediger Goebel	The solution of a problem of Philip Hall's concerning the existence groups G with the property that any extension of G by G is isomorphic to G.
Friday 28th	Graeme Segal	Twisted K-theory and representations of loop groups.
August
Friday 4th	Matthew Emerton	Modular forms, theta functions and elliptic curves.
Friday 11th	Arun Ram	On the K-theory of the flag variety.
Friday 4th	Nanhua Xi	Irreducible modules of quantized enveloping algebras at roots of 1.
Friday 25th	Sacha Blumen	Representations of quantum osp(1|2) at roots of 1 and an application to three-manifold invariants.
September
Friday 1st	Amnon Neeman	On a theorem of Jan-Erik Roos.
Friday 8th	Scott Murray	Representations of Borel subgroups and parabolic subgroups.
October
Friday 13th	Joost van Hamel	Topology of real algebraic varieties and equivariant homology.
Friday 20th	Ruibin Zhang	Representations of Lie Conformal Algebras.
Friday 27th	Valery Tolstoy	Combinatorial properties of root systems of Lie (super)algebras.
November
Friday 3rd	Ilknur Tulunay	Cuspidal modules of finite general linear groups.
Friday 10th	François Digne	Centralisers in braid groups.
Friday 17th	Helge Tverberg	On Radon's Theorem and its many generalizations.
Friday 24th	Arjeh Cohen	Extremal elements in Lie algebras.
December
Friday 1st	Michel Broué	Families of characters for complex reflection groups.
Friday 8th	There will be no seminar this week because of the Lie 2000 conference.
Wednesday 13th	One-day algebra seminar and Christmas dinner 9:30-10 Coffee - Carslaw common room. 10-11 Michel Broué Presentations of complex reflection groups and their braids after Bessis. 11-12 Changchang Xi The Representation dimension of algebras. 12-2 Lunch 2-3 Eamonn O'Brien Recognising tenor products and tensor-induced matrix groups. 3-4 Stephen Yau Algebraic determination of isomorphism classes of the moduli algebras of simple elliptic singularities.
Friday 15th	Alison Parker	The Global Dimension of Schur algebras for GL2 and GL3.
Tuesday 19th	SungSoon Kim	The blocks of Ariki-Koike algebras.
Friday 22nd	Emma Carberry	Harmonic Tori: an Algebraic perspective.