University of Sydney Algebra Seminars in 2011

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February
Wed 9th Bryan Wang Stringy product on orbifold K-theory
Fri 18th Sinead Lyle Homomorphisms between Specht modules
March
Fri 4th Donald Barnes Leibniz algebras
Fri 18th Craig Westerland Cohen-Lenstra heuristics for function fields and Hurwitz spaces
Fri 25th Gus Lehrer The second fundamental theorem of invariant theory for the orthogonal group
April
Fri 1st James Parkinson A classification of commutative parabolic Hecke algebras
Fri 8th Ruibin Zhang Jantzen filtration for Kac modules
Fri 15th Vincent Beck Abelianization in braid groups
Fri 29th Jonathan Brundan Generalisations of Khovanov's arc algebra
May
Fri 6th Andrew Mathas Decomposition numbers for Hecke algebras of type G(r,p,n)
Fri 13th Anthony Henderson Mirabolic and exotic Robinson-Schensted correspondences
Fri 20th Natasha Rozhkovskaya The \(q\)-characters of representations of quantum affine algebras
Fri 27th Pallavi Dani Filling invariants for groups
Geordie Williamson Coxeter groups, Soergel bimodules and higher representation theory
June
Fri 3rd Pramod Achar Koszul duality and mixed geometry
July
Fri 29th Jie Du A double Hall approach to affine \(q\)-Schur algebras
August
Fri 5th Alexander Molev Feigin-Frenkel center for classical types
Fri 19th Ian Grojnowski Almost local differential operators
Hechun Zhang Canonical bases and quantum coordinate rings
Mon 22nd Jennifer Wilson Representation stability for the cohomology of the groups of pure string motions
September
Fri 9th Anthony Henderson The affine Grassmannian and the nilpotent cone
Fri 16th James East Semigroups of singular mappings
Fri 23rd Slava Futorny Torsion theories and corresponding representations
Hua-Lin Huang Quasi-quantum groups and tensor categories: a quiver approach
October
Fri 7th Jun Hu On the annihilators of tensor space in Brauer algebras
Fri 14th Neil Saunders Minimal faithful permutation representations of finite groups
Fri 21st Nikolai Iorgov Ising correlations and elliptic determinants
November
Fri 4th Donald Barnes Faithful representations of Leibniz algebras
Tues 8th Bill Casselman Problems in Kac-Moody algebras and Coxeter groups
Fri 11th Matthew Dyer Groupoids, root systems and weak order
Fri 25th Richard Dipper Unipotent Specht modules of finite general linear groups and some conjectures of Higman, Lehrer and Isaacs
December
Fri 2nd John Enyang A seminormal form for partition algebras
Fri 16th David Easdown Presentations of maximal subgroups of semigroups generated by idempotents subject to relations that come from the underlying biordered set

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