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University of Sydney Algebra Seminars in 2005

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January
28th Dale Rolfsen Ordering braid groups and knot groups
February
4th Hebing Rui A criterion on the semisimple Brauer algebras
4th, 2.05-2.55pm Jorge Soto-Andrade From non-commutative determinants to *-analogues
11th Colva Roney-Dougal Classifying primitive groups
March
4th Frederik Hurst Sets of fixed points of anisotropic tori in the Bruhat-Tits building
11th Sinéad Lyle Reducible Specht modules for Hecke algebras of type A
18th Anthony Henderson Equalities of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of type A
April
1st Bea Bleile Connected sums and splitting of PD³-pairs
8th Grant Cairns Classification of a special family of graded Lie algebras
15th Hélène Barcelo A discrete homotopy theory for graphs and its relation to subspace arrangements
22nd Anton Cox Representation theory of towers of recollement
29th Bob Howlett Specht modules and W-graphs
May
4th, 4-5pm Adam Parusinski Injective endomorphisms of real algebraic varieties
6th Dennis Gaitsgory Representations of affine algebras at the critical level
13th Ilknur Tulunay Representations of a Gelfand-Graev Hecke algebra
20th Hechun Zhang Dual canonical basis
27th Astrid an Huef Extending representations and the duality of induction and restriction
July
22nd Shun-Jen Cheng A Fock space approach to representation theory of C(n)
29th Kevin McGerty The Kronecker quiver and affine sl2
August
5th Weiqiang Wang The class algebras of the symmetric groups and the wreath products
12th Yuly Billig Representations of extended affine Lie algebras
19th Cristian Virdol Tate classes and L-functions of twisted quaternionic Shimura surfaces
26th Ruibin Zhang Quantum supergroups and non-commutative vector bundles
September
2nd Murray Elder Looking for short words in the first Grigorchuk group
9th James Parkinson Buildings and Hecke algebras
16th Alex Molev Verma modules for Yangians
October
14th Oliver Ruff A (relatively) new approach to the representation theory of symmetric groups
21st Noelle Antony The natural embedding of positive singular Artin monoids
November
11th James East Cellular algebras and inverse semigroups
11th, 2.30-3.30 S.G. Dani Automorphism groups of nilpotent Lie groups
18th François Digne Markov traces from representations of finite groups of Lie type
December
2nd Alison Parker The double blob algebra
9th Sinéad Lyle Rank polynomials revisited