London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Imperial College London, January–June 2010


For this period the London Algebra Colloquium was held in Imperial College London. The time was Thursdays at 4:45pm as usual (except for 28th January), in lecture room 140. We met for tea at 4pm in the common room (Huxley 548).

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:

21st January                        Gwyn Bellamy (Edinburgh)
Rational Cherednik algebras at t = 0
 
28th January, 4:30–5:30 Peter Webb (Minnesota)
The representation type of IE categories
 
28th January, 5:35–6:35 John Duncan (Cambridge)
Monstrous moonshine and black holes
 
4th February Cornelia Drutu (Oxford)
Analogies between lattices in semisimple groups and mapping class groups
 
11th February Simon Goodwin (Birmingham)
Finite dimensional irreducible modules for finite W-algebras associated to even multiplicity nilpotents in classical Lie algebras
 
18th February, 4:45–5:45!? Andrzej Żuk (Paris 7)
L2 Betti numbers of closed manifolds
 
18th February, 5:45–6:45!? Aner Shalev (Jerusalem)
The Waring problems for finite simple groups
 
25th February Shaun Stevens (East Anglia)
Simple characters and the Jacquet–Langlands correspondence
 
4th March No seminar
 
11th March Yiftach Barnea (Royal Holloway)
Abstract Commensurators of Profinite Groups
 
18th March Anthony Henderson (Sydney)
Pieces of nilpotent cones for classical groups
 
Easter break
 
29th April Andrei Marcus (Babeş–Bolyai University)
Crossed products, Brauer groups and Clifford algebras
 
6th May Anne Thomas (Oxford)
Lattices in exotic groups
 
13th May Graham Niblo (Southampton)
Means, cohomology and group actions
 
20th May Plamen Kochloukov (Campinas, Brasil)
Verbally prime algebras: tensor products and PI equivalence

John N. Bray
30th September 2010