MAXIMALS Spring 2012

Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Algebra seminars
 

Organized by Mark V Lawson (Heriot-Watt), Michael Wemyss (Edinburgh)

All talks take place on Tuesdays between 15.00 and 17.30 (except 28th Feb*)
Venue: ICMS when possible

Date
Time
Speakers
Venue
31st January
15.00-16.00


16.30-17.30
Collin Bleak (St Andrews)
Automorphisms of generalized R. Thompson groups via dynamics

Jean-Baptiste Gramain (Aberdeen)
 Height zero characters of covering groups
ICMS
Newhaven Lecture Theatre
14th February
15.00-16.00


16.30-17.30
John Mackay (Oxford)
Geometry of random groups

Sue Sierra (Edinburgh)
A family of 4-dimensional algebras
ICMS
Newhaven Lecture theatre
28th February*
Coffee from 15.15
15.30-16.30

16.30-17.30
Colva Roney-Dougal (St Andrews)
Generation of finite groups

Toby Stafford (Manchester)
Classifying noncommutative surfaces: subalgebras of the Sklyanin algebra
ICMS
Newhaven Lecture Theatre
13th March
15.00-16.00

16.30-17.30
Christian Korff (Glasgow)
Quantum cohomology via vicious and osculating walkers

James Mitchell (St Andrews)
The lattice of subsemigroups of the semigroup of all mappings on an infinite set
ICMS
Newhaven Lecture Theatre