Algebra Seminar, 2008-09

date	speaker	university	Title
Sep 3, Wed	Andrei Rapinchuk	UVa	Weakly commensurable arithmetic groups
Sep 10, Wed
Sep 17, Wed	Alexander Kleshchev	University of Oregon, visiting UVa	Mini-course on W-algebras. Lecture 1.
Sep 24, Wed	Stephen Griffeth	University of Minnessota	The lattice of submodules of a Verma module for the rational Cherednik algebra of type G(r,1,n)
Oct 1, Wed	Alexander Kleshchev		Mini-course on W-algebras. Lecture 2.
Oct 8, Wed	Alexander Kleshchev		Mini-course on W-algebras. Lecture 3.
Oct 10, Fri	David Hill	University of California, Berkeley	Type $Q$ Lie Superalgebras and Affine Sergeev Algebras
Oct 15, Wed	Kai-Uwe Bux	UVa	Mini-course on finiteness properties of groups. Lecture 1.
Oct 24, Fri	Kai-Uwe Bux		Mini-course on finiteness properties of groups. Lecture 2.
Oct 29, Wed	Kai-Uwe Bux		Mini-course on finiteness properties of groups. Lecture 3.
Oct 31, Fri	Jayadev Athreya	Yale University	Logarithm laws, diophantine approximation, and the geometry of numbers.
Nov 5, Wed	Mikhail Ershov	UVa	Mini-course on p-adic analytic groups. Lecture 1.
Nov 12, Wed	Mikhail Ershov		Mini-course on p-adic analytic groups. Lecture 2.
Nov 14, Fri	David Hemmer	University of Buffalo, SUNY	An application of algebraic topology to computing cohomology for Young modules of the symmetric group
Nov 19, Wed	Mikhail Ershov		Mini-course on p-adic analytic groups. Lecture 3.
Dec 3, Wed
Dec 10, Wed	Jonathan Brundan	University of Oregon	Category O for Grassmannians and Khovanov's diagram algebra

date	speaker	university	Title
Jan 21, Wed	Mikhail Ershov	UVa	Kazhdan's property for elementary linear groups. Part I.
Jan 28, Wed	Mikhail Ershov		Kazhdan's property for elementary linear groups. Part II.
Jan 30, Fri	Ilir Snopce	Binghamton University	A question of Iwasawa and pro-p groups of finite rank
Feb 4, Wed
Feb 11, Wed	Kevin McCrimmon	UVa	Mini-course on non-associative algebras. Lecture I.
Feb 18, Wed	Kevin McCrimmon		Mini-course on non-associative algebras. Lecture II.
Feb 25, Wed	Kevin McCrimmon		Mini-course on non-associative algebras. Lecture III.
Mar 11, Wed	Jinkui Wan	UVa	Completely splittable representations of affine Hecke-Clifford algebras
Mar 18, Wed	Leonard Scott	UVa	Mini-course on representations and cohomology of finite and algebraic groups. Lecture I.
Mar 25, Wed	Leonard Scott		Mini-course on representations and cohomology of finite and algebraic groups. Lecture II.
Apr 1, Wed	Leonard Scott		Mini-course on representations and cohomology of finite and algebraic groups. Lecture III.
Apr 8, Wed	Shun-Jen Cheng	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Irreducible characters of general linear superalgebra and super duality
Apr 15, Wed	Andrei Rapinchuk	UVa	Kronecker-Weber Theorem. Lecture I.
Apr 16, Thu	Andrei Rapinchuk		Kronecker-Weber Theorem. Lecture II.
Apr 17, Fri	Andrei Rapinchuk		Kronecker-Weber Theorem. Lecture III.
Apr 29, Wed	Dave Witte-Morris	University of Lethbridge	Introduction to Ratner's Theorems on Unipotent Flows