Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon)

Friday 1st August, 12.05-12.55pm, Carslaw 159 ***NEW ROOM***

Higher level Schur-Weyl duality

We present a Schur-Weyl type duality between (degenerate) cyclotomic Hecke algebras and finite W-algebras, and explain how to deduce the main facts on cyclotomic Hecke algebras using representation theory of W-algebras.