| 15th January |
Alexander Premet (Manchester) |
| Primitive ideals and finite W-algebras |
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| 22nd January |
Mark Wildon (Bristol) |
| Some results on decomposition matrices of symmetric groups |
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| 29th January |
Alexander Kleshchev (Oregon) |
| Graded representation theory of symmetric groups |
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| 5th February |
Jozef Širáň (Open University) |
| Classification of regular maps on a given surface |
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| 12th February |
Martin Bridson (Oxford) |
| Decision problems and profinitely isomorphic groups |
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| 26th February |
Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway) |
| Cryptanalysing the critical group |
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| 5th March |
Gunter Malle (Kaiserslautern) |
| Element orders and Sylow structure |
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| 12th March |
Christopher Voll (Southampton) |
| Representation zeta functions of compact p-adic analytic groups |
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| 19th March |
Ralph Stöhr (Manchester) |
| Modular Lie powers of relation modules and free central extensions of groups |
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| Easter break |
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| 14th May 2009 |
David Stewart (Imperial College) |
| Reductive subgroups of the exceptional algebraic groups, or some calculations in low degree non-abelian cohomology |
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| 21st May 2009, 3:30pm |
Pham Huu Tiep (Arizona) |
| Low-dimensional representations of finite simple groups and conjectures of Katz, Kollar, and Larsen |
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| 21st May 2009, 5pm |
Robert M. Guralnick (UCLA) |
| Presentations and cohomology |
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| 11th June 2009 |
Mikhail Ershov (Virginia) |
| Kazhdan quotients of Golod–Shafarevich groups |
