London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Queen Mary, University of London, October–December 2009


The Colloquium this term took place in Room 103, Mathematics Building, at Queen Mary at 4:45pm. Tea/coffee was available beforehand from 4:15pm in Room 102. We had talks all weeks from 8th October till 10th/17th December, except for 26th November [because of an inaugural lecture].

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 programme was as follows:

8th October                        Colin D. Reid (Queen Mary)
Subgroups of finite index and the just infinite property
 
15th October Robert A. Wilson (Queen Mary)
The large Ree groups
 
22nd October Matthew Fayers (Queen Mary)
Irreducible Specht modules for Iwahori–Hecke algebras of type A—revisited (revisited)
 
29th October Roger M. Byrant (Manchester)
Periodicity of Adams operations on Green rings [a.k.a. Exterior and symmetric powers of modules for cyclic groups]
 
5th November John S. Wilson (Oxford)
Free subgroups in abstract groups and pro-p groups with few relators
 
12th November Jonathan Elmer (Queen Mary)
Separating Algebras
 
19th November Charles W. Eaton (Manchester)
Minimal non-zero heights of irreducible characters
 
26th November No seminar, but we instead have:
Professor Leonard H. Soicher Inaugural Lecture
Combinatorial design theory is not just for Sudoku
At 6:30 pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary
 
3rd December Martin Edjvet (Nottingham)
Embedding Theorems for Cyclically Presented Groups
 
10th December Thomas W. Müller (Queen Mary)
A class of groups universal for free R-tree actions
 
17th December Jérémie Guilhot (East Anglia)
Kazhdan–Lusztig Cells in Affine Weyl Groups of Rank 2

John N. Bray
18th December 2009