School of Mathematics and Statistics
Algebra Seminar
The University of Sydney
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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 Uq(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 sln
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