Algebra Seminar, 2009-10

date	speaker	university	Title
Sep 9, Wed	Lei Zhao	UVa	Typical representations of Lie superalgebras
Sep 16, Wed
Sep 23, Wed	Mikhail Ershov	UVa	Mini-course on Golod-Shafarevich groups. Lecture I.
Sep 25, Fri	Mikhail Ershov	UVa	Mini-course on Golod-Shafarevich groups. Lecture II.
Sep 30, Wed	Mikhail Ershov	UVa	Mini-course on Golod-Shafarevich groups. Lecture III.
Oct 7, Wed	Jinkui Wan	UVa	Invariants and spin Invariants of the symmetric groups
Oct 16, Fri	Martin Kassabov	Cornell University and IAS	Nonlinearity of matrix groups
Oct 28, Wed	Andrei Rapinchuk	UVA	On groups with bounded generation
Oct 30, Fri	John Thompson	University of Florida	TBA
Nov 4, Wed	Zongzhu Lin	Kansas State University	Cluster automorphisms
Nov 11, Wed	Francesco Matucci	UVa	Structure theorems for subgroups of homeomorphisms groups
Nov 18, Wed	Collin Bleak	University of Nebraska	What demonstrative subgroups cannot tell us about R. Thompson's group V
Dec 2, Wed	Jie Du	University of New South Wales	A double Hall algebra approach to affine quantum Schur-Weyl theory

date	speaker	university	Title	Notes
Jan 27, Wed	Francesco Matucci	UVa	Mini-course on Thompson's groups. Lecture I.
Jan 29, Fri	Francesco Matucci	UVa	Mini-course on Thompson's groups. Lecture II.
Feb 3, Wed	Francesco Matucci	UVa	Mini-course on Thompson's groups. Lecture III.
Feb 11, Thu	Francesco Matucci	UVa	Mini-course on Thompson's groups. Lecture IV.
Feb 17, Wed	Timothy Pollio	UVa	The Tate Cohomology Groups and an Isomorphism from Local Class Field Theory
Feb 24, Wed	Matthew Zaremsky	UVa	Torsion properties of representatives of Weyl group elements in Chevalley groups
Feb 26, Fri	Yiqiang Li	Virginia Tech	A geometric realization of quantum groups of type D, and beyond
Mar 17, Wed	Charles Dunkl	UVa	Jack polynomials and representations of rational Cherednik algebras
Mar 24, Wed	Camillia Smith Barnes	Sweet Briar College	Enumeration of the Distinct Shuffles of Permutations
Mar 26, Fri	Brain Boe	University of Georgia	First Cohomology for Finite Groups of Lie Type
Mar 31, Wed	Thomas Koberda	Harvard University	Residual properties of 3-manifold groups
Apr 2, Fri	Tim Emerick	UVa	Consequences of the Rigidity Theorem in Spherical Moufang Buildings	2:30-3:30pm
Apr 7, Wed	Shun-Jen Cheng	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Kostant-type homology formulas for unitarizable modules over classical Lie superalgebras
Apr 14, Wed	Michael Collins	University of Oxford, visiting UVa	Modular analogues of Brauer's characterisation of characters	1-2pm in Ker 326
Apr 14, Wed	Ben McReynolds	University of Chicago	Bertrand's postulate and subgroup growth
Apr 16, Fri	Workshop on arithmetic groups and applications
Apr 21, Wed	Pavel Zalesskii	Universidade de Brasilia	Genus for groups
Apr 28, Wed	David Sherman	UVa	Ultrapowers in algebra and analysis

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