London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Imperial College London, January–June 2008


It is probably better to go to http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~nnikolov/LAC.html for this term’s seminars, though I shall try to keep these pages fairly up-to-date.
This term (and next) the London Algebra Colloquium will be held in Imperial College London. The time is Thursdays at 4:45pm as usual. We meet for tea at 4pm in room 549 and start at 4:45pm in room 140 (formerly 658). We shall begin on 17 January, run until the Easter break and then resume during the summer term.

Details of (all) previous colloquia can be found here.
The previous term’s seminars can also be found here.
The next term’s seminars can also be found here.

The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:

17 January                        Benjamin Klopsch (Royal Holloway)
Deformations and Rigidity of lattices in Soluble Lie Groups
 
24 January J. Toby Stafford (Manchester)
Cherednik algebras, Hilbert schemes and quantum Hamiltonian reduction
 
31 January David Craven (Oxford)
Character degrees of symmetric groups
 
7 February Rudolf Tange (York)
Complete reducibility and closed orbits
 
14 February Ralf Gramlich (Birmingham)
Discrete subgroups of locally finite Kac–Moody groups
 
21 February Christopher Parker (Birmingham)
Fusion systems
 
28 February Anton Evseev (Cambridge)
Characters and conjugacy classes of triangular matrix groups
 
6 March Mikhail Belolipetsky (Durham)
Finiteness theorems for arithmetic reflection groups
 
13 March Special Colloquium (with three talks)
A memorial day for Karl Gruenberg in Queen Mary
 
Easter break
 
1 May Emmanuel Breuillard (École Polytechnique)
Heights of GL(d) and free subgroups
 
8 May Joseph Chuang (City)
Variations on two-dimensional topological field theory
 
15 May Martin Liebeck (Imperial)
The Ore Conjecture
 
22 May Anton Cox (City)
The blocks of the Brauer algebra
 
29 May Raphaël Rouquier (Oxford)
Higher representations of Lie algebras
 
5 June Tim Riley (Bristol)
Hydra groups
 
12 June B. Sury (ISI Bangalore)
Central extensions of p-adic groups
 
19 June Nigel Boston (Wisconsin Madison)
Random p-groups

John N. Bray
30th June 2008