University of Sydney Algebra Seminars in 2010

Click on the title to see the abstract.

February
Fri 19th Tim Riley Hydra Groups
March
Fri 5th Daniel Nakano Cohomology and Support Varieties: a method to bridge algebra and geometry
Fri 12th Daniel Nakano Differentiating the Weyl generic dimension formula and support varieties for quantum groups
Fri 19th James Parkinson Representations of affine Hecke algebras
April
Fri 9th Stephan Tillman Volume of representations
Fri 23rd Gerald Cliff Explicit bases for representations of Lie algebras
Fri 30th Anatol Kirillov A "small" grand unification
May
Fri 7th Chengming Bai Classical Yang-Baxter equation and some related algebraic structures
Wed 12th Alistair Savage Equivariant map algebras and their representation theory
Fri 21st Alan Stapledon Representations of hypersurfaces and equivariant Ehrhart theory
Fri 21st Branislav Jurco The classifying topos of a topological bicategory
Fri 28th Richard Hain On the section conjecture for universal curves over function fields
June
Fri 25th Stewart Wilcox Rational Cherednik algebras
July
Fri 2nd Nick Gill Growth in solvable subgroups of GL_r(p)
Fri 16th Wolfgang Woess Horocyclic products of trees
Fri 23rd Alexander Kleshchev Graded representation theory of symmetric groups and KLR algebras - Part I
Fri 30th Pavel Pyatov Quasi-oscillator presentation for the quantum group Uq(gl(N))
August
Fri 6th Joseph Landsberg P vs NP and the geometry of orbit closures
Fri 20th Alexander Kleshchev Graded representation theory of symmetric groups and KLR algebras - Part II
Fri 27th Andrew Mathas Graded representation theory of symmetric groups and KLR algebras - Part III
September
Fri 3rd Jacqui Ramagge Some thoughts on self-similar groups and their algebras
Fri 10th David Baraglia Mirror symmetry SYZ and special Lagrangians
Fri 24th Siye Wu Twisted Cohomology of A-infinity Algebras
October
Fri 8th Anne Thomas Infinite generation of non-cocompact lattices on right-angled buildings
Fri 15th John Graham Centers of cyclotomic Hecke algebras
Fri 22nd James East Infinite partition monoids
Fri 29th Peter Donovan Introduction to Supergeometry
November
Fri 5th Syu Kato Exotic representation theory of affine Hecke algebras
Fri 12th Anthony Henderson The toric variety of the symmetric group
Fri 19th Oleg Ogievetsky Diagonal reduction algebras
Fri 26th Alex Molev Combinatorial bases for representations of the Lie superalgebra gl(m|n)

For questions or comments please contact webmaster@maths.usyd.edu.au