Algebra Seminar 2016-17
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 14:00 in Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute
Organisers: Inna Capdeboscq and Dmitriy Rumynin
Term 1 - 2016/17
Thursday 13 October 2016, Dmitriy Rumynin, Introduction to Beilinson-Bernstein Localisation(POSTPONED)- Thursday 20 October 2016, Matt Westaway, K_2 of Kac-Moody Groups
- Thursday 3 November 2016, Matthew Spencer, Brauer Relations in Positive Characteristic
- Thursday 10 November 2016, Yanki Lekili, A Canonical Basis of Representations from Floer Theory
- Thursday 17 November 2016, Patrick Dehornoy, Multifraction Reduction in Artin-Tate Groups
- Thursday 24 November 2016, Daan Krammer, Homological Link Invariants
- Thursday 1 December 2016, Bruce Westbury, Crystals and Cactus Groups
Term 2 - 2016/17
- Thursday 26 January 2017, Alain Valette, Expanders and Box Spaces
- Thursday 2 February 2017, Pavel Zalesskii, The Profinite Completion of 3-Manifold Groups
- Thursday 9 February 2017, Dmitriy Rumynin, Observations on Integration of Lie Algebra Modules
- Thursday 16 February 2017, Jorge Vitória, Grothendieck Hearts in Triangulated Categories
- Thursday 23 February 2017, Edward Ffitch, Garside Families in Generalized Artin-Tits Monoid
- Thursday 2 March 2017, Paul Levy, Nilpotent Commuting Varieties and Support Varieties
Term 3 - 2016/17
- Thursday 27 April 2017, Charudatta Hajarnavis, Survey talk: PI Rings of Finite Global Dimension
- Thursday 4 May 2017, Chimere Anabanti, On Classification of Finite Filled Groups
- Thursday 18 May 2017, Guy Rousseau, The Cone Topology on the Boundary at Infinity of a Masure
- Thursday 25 May 2017, Bruce Westbury, Pursuing the Exceptional Series
- Thursday 1 June 2017, Amiram Braun, On Humphreys' "Parameterization of Blocks" Conjecture
- Thursday 8 June 2017, Matt Westaway, Cohomological Conditions for Module Extensions
- Thursday 15 June 2017, Andrei Jaikin, On L^2-Betti Numbers and Their Analogues in Positive Characteristic
- Thursday 22 June 2017 (3pm, MS04 - unusual time and location, joint with Geometry and Topology Seminar) , Derek Holt, A New Method for Verifying the Hyperbolicity of a Finitely Presented Group