LMS workshop on representation theory

Wednesday 15th–Saturday 18th June 2011

School of Mathematics

University of Birmingham

Programme
Wednesday
09:30–10:30 Meinolf Geck On the l-blocks of finite groups of Lie type
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:00 Michael Bate Semisimplicity of representations and subgroup structure of algebraic groups
12:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Sinead Lyle Graded Specht modules and graded homomorphisms
15:15–16:15 Andrew Mathas Decomposition numbers for Hecke algebras of type G(r,p,n)
16:15–17:00 Tea
17:00–18:00 Stephen Donkin On the cohomology of line bundles for the generalized flag variety for Sp(4)
Thursday
9:15–10:15 Paul Martin On diagram algebras and alcove geometry
10:30–11:30 Gwyn Bellamy Combinatorics of the isospectral commuting variety
11:30–12:00 Coffee
12:00–13:00 Catharina Stroppel Diagrammatic Koszul algebras and quiver Hecke algebras
Afternoon Free afternoon and evening Including a trip in the evening to see Ravi Shankar: Celebrating his 10th Decade at Symphony Hall Birmingham.
Friday
09:30–10:30 Paul Levy Singularities in nilpotent cones of exceptional type
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:00 Simon Riche Constructible sheaves on affine Grassmannians and geometry of the dual group
12:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Michela Varagnolo Affine Hecke algebras of classical type and canonical bases
15:15–16:15 Alexander Samokhin On the D-affinity of flag varieties in positive characteristic
16:15–17:00 Tea
17:00–18:00 Wolfgang Soergel Koszul duality in positive characteristic
Evening Curry night
Saturday
9:15–10:15 Daniel Juteau New version of parity sheaves
10:30–11:30 Kobi Kremnizer Modular and root of unity representation theory
11:30–12:00 Coffee
12:00–13:00 Kevin McGerty Counterexamples, canonical bases and characteristic cycles
Lunch and departure
Back
Organizers: Simon Goodwin (Birmingham) and Dmitriy Rumynin (Warwick).
Supported by
London Mathematical Society
Birmingham Mathematical Institute
and
EPSRC Network Grant EP/F029381/1
Representation Theory Across the Channel