University of Oregon: Department of Mathematics

Algebra Seminar

This seminar is held on Tuesdays at 4pm in 210 Deady.

September 26 - Bruno Valette - University of Nice
How to use Manin's products to prove Deligne's conjecture for Loday algebras with Koszul property
October 17 - David Hill - University of Oregon
Elementary Divisors of the Shapovalov Form on the Basic Representation of Kac-Moody Algebras
October 17 - Dmitry Vaintrob - University of Oregon
Hochschild cohomology of group algebras, string topology and the Goldman Lie algebra.
November 7 - Jonathan Brundan - University of Oregon
Symmetric functions, parabolic category O and the Springer fiber.
November 14 -
Graduate class offering for next year
November 21 - Alex Jordan - University of Oregon
Zhu's trace identity for super vertex algebras

January 16 - Alexander Polishchuk - University of Oregon
Associative Yang-Baxter equation
February 13, 4:30-5:30 (unusual time!) - Malka Schaps - Bar Ilan University
Crossovers between covering groups of the symmetric and alternating groups
February 20 - Pavel Etingof - MIT
Equivariant D-modules on the nilcone and representations of the rational Cherednik algebra in type A
February 22, 3-3:30pm (unusual day and time!) - Ken-ichi Shinoda - Sophia University, Tokyo
Gaussian sums for finite linear groups
February 22, 3:30-4pm (unusual day and time!) - Charles Curtis - University of Oregon
On the Bruhat decomposition and structure constants of Hecke algebras of finite Chevalley groups
February 27 - Sergey Yuzvinsky - University of Oregon
Split fibers of pencils of hypersurfaces

April 17 - Ian Musson - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Affine Lie superalgebras and number theory
April 24 - Brad Shelton - University of Oregon
Generalizing the notion of Koszul algebra
May 1 - Jonathan Brown - University of Oregon
Elementary invariants for centralizers of nilpotent matrices
May 8 - Victor Ostrik - University of Oregon
Fusion categories of dimension p^n
May 22 - Gary Seitz - University of Oregon
Unipotent and nilpotent elements in simple algebraic groups and associated Lie algebras
June 5 - Grace Lyo - University of California, Berkeley
Semisimple skew group rings and their modules