Speaker: Eddy Godelle (Universite de Caen, France) Web Page Link: http://www.math.unicaen.fr/~godelle/index.html Time: Friday, 2:30--3:30PM, Dec. 16, 2011 Room: Carslaw Building 375, Sydney University Lunch: meet around 1PM at Level 2 entry of Carslaw Building, combining with the Algebra Seminar Lunch ------------------------------------------------------- Title: Hecke Algebras and Renner Monoids Abstract: we will introduce Renner monoids, that play in the context of Algebraic monoid theory the role that play Weyl groups in Algebraic Group theory. We will explain how one can obtain presentation of these monoids and prove a conjecture of L. Solomon about the presentation of their associated Hecke Algebras. -------------------------------------------------------