MAXIMALS

Maxwell Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Algebra Seminars 2006-2007

3rd October 2006: S Kolb (Edinburgh), The BGG resolution
I Gordon (Edinburgh), Variation of GIT quotients and Hecke algebras
10th October 2006: M Reiffel (UC Berkeley), Vector bundles and the Gromov-Hausdorff distance
17th October 2006: M van den Bergh (Hasselt), Non-commutative resolutions of determinantal varieties
31st October 2006: R Vale (Glasgow), Hecke algebras via Cherednik algebras
L O'Carroll (Edinburgh), Some effective algebra: resuts of Macaulay, Cheltsov and Shiffman
7th November 2006: D Easdown (Sydney), Growth and the existence of identities for finitely generated inverse semigroups
14th November 2006: R Gray (Leeds), Finiteness conditions and index in semigroup theory
G Robinson (Aberdeen), Amalgams and representation theory
28th November 2006: A Shumakovitch (George Washington University), Khovanov homology and its torsion
M Atkinson (Otago), Longest cyclic increasing subsequences
M Edjvet (Nottingham), Cyclically presented groups and Magnus intersections in one-relator groups
5th December 2006: N D Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), Some algebra for one-dimensional tilings
S P Smith (Univ Washington), Noncommutative Hirzebruch surfaces
9th January 2007: J Howie (Heriot-Watt), Limit groups
N Scheithauer (Edinburgh), The Weil representation of SL(2,Z) and some applications
23rd January 2007: T H Lenagan (Edinburgh), Quantum Schubert varieties in quantum Grassmannians
R Weidmann (Heriot-Watt), Accessibility of fintely generated groups
6th February 2007: M Wemyss (Bristol), Reconstruction Algebras of Type A and the Special McKay Correspondence
K Drakakis (UCD), Costas arrays: theory and applications
20th February 2007: M V Lawson (Heriot-Watt), Constructing groups from inverse semigroups
S Launois (Edinburgh), Combinatorics with quantum matrices
6th March 2007: R J Shank (Kent), Modular invariant theory for cyclic groups of prime order
A Braun (Haifa), Classical orders of finite lattice type


The current programme is available here.

For further information, contact

Iain Gordon
Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building,
Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ.

Jim Howie
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Scott Russell Building, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS.