University of Sydney

Algebra Seminars 2001

January
Friday 5th	Miles Reid	Birational geometry and graded rings.
Friday 12th	Sigrid Wortmann	A finiteness result for p-adic Galois representations.
Friday 17th	Xiaoping Xu	Non-graded Infinite Dimensional Simple Lie Algebras.
February
Thursday 1st	Shun-Jen Cheng	Howe duality for Lie superalgebras.
Friday 9th	J-M Fontaine	p-adic Hodge theory: what is it and what is it for?
Friday 23rd	Frances Kirwan	Geometric invariant theory and filtrations on bundles over curves.
March
Friday 16th	Gunter Malle	Low dimensional representations of quasi-simple groups.
Tuesday 20th	Vladimir Popov	An analogue of M. Artin's conjecture on invariants for nonassociative algebras.
Friday 23rd	Richard Kane	Lie Groups and p-Compact Groups.
April
Tuesday 3rd	Nanhua Xi	Kazhdan-Lusztig Cells of Coxeter Groups.
May
Friday 4th	Stephen Donkin	Hecke algebras and characters of the symmetric groups.
Friday 11th	Jon Carlson	Endotrivial modules.
Friday 18th	Ruibin Zhang	Q-Schur Superalgebras and the Quantum General Linear Supergroup.
Friday 25th	Helena Verrill	Images of modular mod l Galois representations.
June
Friday 1st	Chris Macmeikan	The cohomology of toral complements.
Friday 8th	Anatol Kirillov	Some remarkable quadratic algebras and Schubert Calculus
Friday 15th	Don Barnes	Cohomology of F-excentric modules of a soluble Lie algebra
Friday 22nd	Andrew Mathas	The representation type of Hecke algebras of type B
Friday 29th	Rod Gover	Conformal Geometry, representation theory and de Rham cohomology
July
Friday 20th	Lisa Carbone	The tree lattice existence theorems.
Friday 27th	Miles Reid	McKay correspondence, theme and free variations.
August
Friday 3rd	Andrew Mathas	Tilting modules for cyclotomic Schur algebras.
Friday 10th	Piotr Hajac	Noncommutative geometry of algebraic bundles.
Friday 17th	Bill Casselman	How to multiply in a Coxeter group.
Friday 31st	Anthony Henderson	Spherical functions and character sheaves.
September
Friday 7th	Graeme Segal	Configuration spaces and flag manifolds.
Friday 14th	Vyacheslav Futorny	Weight representations of Kac-Moody algebras.
Friday 21st	Jürgen Klüners	Counting Galois extensions of number fields.
October
Friday 5th	Vyacheslav Futorny	Representations of Weyl algebras.
Friday 19th	Ben Martin	Conjugacy classes in a reductive subgroup of a reductive group.
November
Friday 9th	Tonny Springer	Combinatorial questions associated with group compactifications.
Friday 16th	Eric Ragoucy	Quasi-Hopf algebras and deformations of double Yangians.
Friday 23rd	Stephen Bigelow	Homology and the Hecke algebra.
Friday 30th	Jean Michel	Symmetric braids.
December
Friday 7th	Don Barnes	Faithful F-hypercentral modules for soluble Lie algebras.
Friday 14th	John Graham	The centre of the Hecke algebra.
Friday 21st	Ian Grojnowski	Quantum affine algebras.