| Speaker: | Thomas Lam (Michigan) |
| Title: | Young tableaux |
| Abstract: |
Young tableaux are combinatorial objects discovered 100
years ago. They have connections with many areas of mathematics --
including geometry, representation theory, and probability. I first
learnt of Young tableaux as an undergraduate at UNSW; my first theorem
as a graduate student was concerning Young tableaux; and I still spend
a lot of time thinking about them. I hope to explain how Young
tableaux come up in my work, and that of other mathematicians.
Thomas grew up in Sydney. In high school he represented Australia in the 1997 International Mathematics Olympiad. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate at UNSW, then as a graduate student at MIT. After graduating he taught as an Assistant Professor at Harvard before moving to the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor in 2009. Thomas works in combinatorics, and is especially interested in relations with algebra and geometry. His hobbies include ice hockey and go. |
