Queen Mary Representation Theory Study Group

Programme of talks for previous years

Talk schedule for January–June 2006. These talks explored Aschbacher’s Theorem and Classical Groups. (An exception occurred on 7th March.)

10th January 2006: John N. Bray — Introduction and overview. I.
17th January 2006: John N. Bray — Introduction and overview. II.
24th January 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Linear groups. I.
31st January 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Linear groups. II.
7th February 2006: Elliot M. Costi — Symplectic groups. I.
14th February 2006: Elliot M. Costi — Symplectic groups. II.
21st February 2006: Henrik Bäärnhielm — Unitary groups. I.
28th February 2006: Henrik Bäärnhielm — Unitary groups. II.
A break from the main programme for this term.
7th March 2006: Geir Helleloid (Stanford, CA, USA).
Almost all p-groups have automorphism group a p-group for p odd.
Abstract available as Text, DVI or PDF.
The main programme resumes.
14th March 2006: Henrik Bäärnhielm — Unitary groups. III.
21st March 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. I.
28th March 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. II.
4th April 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. III.
Easter break.
25th April 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. IV.
2nd May 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. V.
9th May 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. VI.
16th May 2006: John N. Bray — Orthogonal groups. VII.
23rd May 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Extraspecial groups and their normalisers. I.
30th May 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Extraspecial groups and their normalisers. II.
6th June 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Extraspecial groups and their normalisers. III.
13th June 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Extraspecial groups and their normalisers. IV.
20th June 2006: Richard W. Barraclough — Extraspecial groups and their normalisers. V.

Summer break. Talks resumed on 4th October 2006.

Talk schedule for September–December 2005:

27th September 2005: John N. Bray (QMUL).
Some character theoretic formulæ.
4th October 2005: John N. Bray (QMUL).
Representations of small groups in characteristic zero. I: the group Q₈.
11th October 2005: John N. Bray (QMUL).
Representations of small groups in characteristic zero. II: the group Q₁₂.
18th October 2005: Richard W. Barraclough (QMUL).
The MeatAxe(s). I.
25th October 2005: Richard W. Barraclough (QMUL).
The MeatAxe(s). II.
1st November 2005: Richard W. Barraclough (QMUL).
The MeatAxe(s). III.
8th November 2005: Robert A. Wilson (QMUL).
The O’Nan–Scott Theorem. I.
15th November 2005: Robert A. Wilson (QMUL).
The O’Nan–Scott Theorem. II.
22nd November 2005: Robert A. Wilson (QMUL).
The O’Nan–Scott Theorem. III.
29th November 2005: Robert A. Wilson (QMUL).
The O’Nan–Scott Theorem. IV.
6th December 2005: Mohan Panchanathan (QMUL).
Results concerning groups with few conjugacy classes.
13th December 2005: Jonathan M. Ward (QMUL).
Some non-generation results for finite groups.

Talk schedule for February–July 2005:

Quite a lot of Curtis and Reiner was covered in this period. The precise ordering of the speakers has been forgotten.

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Last updated: 28th September 2006.