University of Sydney Algebra Seminars in 2013

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March
Fri 1st Jarod Alper Stability for (bi)canonical curves
Fri 8th Jie Du Representations of \(q\)-Schur superalgebras at a root of unity
Fri 15th Gyula Karolyi Some applications of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
Fri 22nd Peter Donovan Numerical Testing of the Riemann Hypothesis
Fri 22nd Alex Dimca Characteristic varieties and resonance varieties
April
Fri 12th Sinéad Lyle Symmetric group algebras, Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras and Specht modules
Fri 19th Tomoyuki Arakawa Affine W-algebras and Vinberg's problem for centralizers
Fri 26th Donald Barnes Character clusters for Lie algebra modules over a field of non-zero characteristic
May
Fri 3rd Christopher Bowman Schur-Weyl dualities, diagram algebras, and the Kronecker problem
Fri 10th Naihuan Jing Spin representations of wreath products
Fri 17th Pinhas Grossman Fusion categories and finite groups
Fri 17th Dick Hain The Beauville splitting of the Chow groups of a the Jacobian of a general curve
Fri 24th Mircea Voineagu Equivariant motivic cohomologies
June
Fri 7th Masoud Kamgarpour On the center of Lie algebras
Fri 14th Anne Thomas Infinite reduced words and the Tits boundary of Coxeter groups
Fri 21st Omar Ortiz Branco Schubert calculus for complex reflection groups
Fri 21st Pramod Achar The topology of the affine Grassmannian and the Mirkovic-Vilonen conjecture
Fri 28th Donald Taylor Gaussian elimination in groups of Lie type
July
Fri 12th Arun Ram Views from Castalia
Fri 19th Oded Yacobi Yangians and slices in the affine Grassmannian
Fri 26th Anthony Henderson The modular generalized Springer correspondence
August
Fri 2nd Peter McNamara Representations of KLR algebras
Fri 9th JinKui Wan Presenting queer Schur superalgebras
Fri 16th Omar Foda Classical and quantum integrability in maximally supersymmetric gauge theories
Fri 23rd Alan Stapledon Representations on the cohomology of hypersurfaces and mirror symmetry
Fri 30th Martina Lanini Towards a moment graph approach to critical level representation theory
September
Fri 6th James East Idempotent generators in partition monoids
Fri 13th Manoj K. Yadav Class-preserving automorphisms and central quotients of finite \(p\)-groups
Fri 20th John Enyang Homomorphisms between cell modules of the Brauer algebra
October
Tue 4th Geordie Williamson Short course on Soergel bimodules and representation theory (Oct-Dec)
Fri 25th Daniel Juteau Parity sheaves
November
Fri 8th Robert Coquereaux Sum rules for tensor and fusion multiplicities
Wed 13th Alex Weekes Shift of argument algebras and the cactus group
Thu 14th Tony Licata Wreath prodcuts, Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, and braid groups
Fri 22nd James Shank Rings of invariants of elementary abelian p-groups
December
Mon 2nd Stephen Griffeth Monodromy representations of partial braid groups and finite dimensional rational Cherednik algebra modules

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