University of Sydney

Algebra Seminars 1998

February
Tuesday 3rd	Stephen Glasby	Subgroups of the unipotent upper triangular matrix group with maximal derived length and a minimal number of generators
Friday 6th	Susumu Ariki	Representations of cyclotomic Hecke algebras and quantum groups.
Friday 13th	Andrew Mathas	Representations of Hecke algebras and Schur algebras of symmetric groups.
Friday 20th	Jacqui Ramagge	Jucys-Murphy elements and affine Hecke algebras.
Tuesday 24th	Alan Camina	Finite linear spaces and their automorphism groups.
Friday 27th	Alan Camina	Cardinalities of conjugacy classes in finite groups.
Friday 27th	Eamonn O'Brien	Exploring the structure of matrix groups.
March
Friday 6th	Jie Du	Borel subalgebras of the Schur algebra and their generalization.
Friday 13th	Gerhard Röhrle	Recent results on the action of paraboic groups.
Friday 13th	Omar Foda	Combinatorics of Virasoro highest weight representations.
Friday 18th	Yanming Wang	C-normality of groups and its properties
Friday 20th	Jian-yi Shi	Root systems and affine Weyl groups
Friday 27th	Jean-Charles Faugere	Solving polynomial systems.
April
Friday 3rd	Claus Fieker	On the Computation of Class Fields.
Friday 8th	Derek Holt
Friday 24th	Alice Niemyer
May
Friday 1st	Amon Neeman	Smirnov's work on the standard conjectures.
Friday 8th	Gavid Brown	Polynomials in two variables via their topology.
Friday 15th	Herbert Brückner	A finite soluble quotient algorithm.
Friday 22nd	David Kohel	Computing the zeta function of diagonal equations over finite fields.
Friday 29th	Gus Lehrer	The representation theory of affine Temperley-Lieb algebras I.
June
Friday 5th	Gus Lehrer	The representation theory of affine Temperley-Lieb algebras II.
Friday 12th	Andrew Mathas	The cyclotomic Jantzen-Schaper theorem.
(Joint UNSW-Sydney Colloquium, 2-3pm. 310 Matthews Building NSW.)
Friday 19th	Andrew Francis	The minimal basis for the centre of an Iwahori-Hecke algebra.
Friday 26th	David Jackon	Blocks of algebraic groups and cyclotomic Hecke algebras.
July
Friday 3rd	Gregor Kemper	The Cohen-Macaulay Property in Invariant Theory.
Friday 17th	Hebing Rui	Ariki-Koike algebras with semisimple bottom.
Friday 24th	Brian Conrad	Deformation theory of Galois Representations for the non-expert.
Friday 31th	Jorge Almeida	The Krohn-Rhodes complexity problem.
August
Friday 7th	Alexander Stolin	Frobenius approach to Hopf algebras.
Friday 14th	Zhang Yingbo	Homogeneous exact categories.
Friday 21st	Andrew Mathas	Irreducble Specht modules for symmetric groups.
Friday 28th	Geoffrey Robinson	Clifford Theory and quasi-nilpotent subgroups.
September
Friday 4th	Robert Howlett	Normalizers of parabolic subgroups.
Friday 11th	Gordon James	Immanant problems, no solutions imminent.
Friday 25th	Alexander Molev	The Quantum Sylvester Theorem and its applications.
October
28/9-2/10	AGM Australian Mathematics Society
Friday 16th	Don Taylor	Standard modules for Lie algebras and Chevalley groups.
Friday 23rd	Paula Cohen	On some non-arithmetic groups arising from the monodromy of hypergeometric functions.
Friday 30th	Gus Lehrer	Matrices, configuration spaces and loop spaces.
November
Friday 6th	Tony Springer	Complex reflection groups.
Friday 13th	Franz Winkler	Symbolic Geometric Computation.
Friday 20th	André Joyal	The homology of symmetric and braided monoidal categories.
December
Friday 4th	Gundel Klaas	Linear pro-p-groups of finite width and their Lie algebras.
Friday 18th	Andrew Pressley	Finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras.