University of Sydney Algebra Seminars in 2006

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February
10th, 17th and 21st	Michel Broué	A construction of the generic Hecke algebra of a complex reflection group through monodromy
24th	John Graham	On the centre of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of the symmetric group
March
10th	Ben Wilson	Verma modules for affine sl(2)
17th	Anthony Henderson	Quiver varieties and zero weight spaces
24th	Alexander Stolin	Irreducible highest-weight modules and equivariant quantization
24th	Eric Sommers	Equivalence classes of Borel-stable subspaces
29th	Patrick Dehornoy	The word reversing method for presented (semi)groups
31st	Patrick Dehornoy	Efficient solutions for the word problem of braids
April
7th	Jie Du	Frobenius morphisms and representations of algebras
21st	Oliver Ruff	Weight theory for alternating groups
May
5th	Gus Lehrer	Endomorphism algebras of tensor powers
12th	David Easdown	Bosets and fundamental semigroups
19th	Sacha Blumen	The Birman-Wenzl-Murakami algebra, Hecke algebra, and representations of U_q(osp(1\|2n))
26th	Andrew Mathas	Seminormal forms for cellular algebras
June
2nd	Yuly Billig	Solving non-commutative differential equations in vertex algebras
July
21st	Brian Parshall	Quantum group cohomology via the geometry of the nullcone
28th	Bangming Deng	Generic extensions and bases of quantum affine sl_n
August
4th	Anthony Henderson	Poset homology and the cohomology of real DeConcini-Procesi models
11th	Jonathan Hillman	Slice knots and deficiency conditions
18th	Jun Hu	Crystal bases and simple modules for the cyclotomic Hecke algebra of type G(r,p,n)
25th	Anne Thomas	Lattices in automorphism groups of polyhedral complexes
September
1st	Norman Wildberger	Geometry for algebraists
8th	Daniel Chan	Explicit non-commutative geometry
15th	Catherine Greenhill	Asymptotic enumeration of irregular bipartite graphs
22nd	Eric Rains	New deformations of Coxeter groups
October
6th	Hyohe Miyachi	Rouquier blocks and runner removal Morita equivalences
13th	Ben Wilson	Highest-weight theory for Lie algebras of truncated currents
November
3rd	Leonard Scott	Reduced standard modules and 1-cohomology
10th	Emma Carberry	An algebraic viewpoint on integrable systems
17th	Brent Everitt	Partial mirror symmetry
17th, 2.05-2.55pm	Gus Lehrer	Coxeter group actions on toric varieties
24th	Edward Formanek	Braid group representations of low degree
December
1st	Bill Casselman	Open problems in Coxeter groups and associated structures

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