Representations of finite groups of Lie type and their subgroups
Monday 15th–Wednesday 17th December 2008
Representations of finite groups of Lie type and their subgroupsMonday 15th–Wednesday 17th December 2008
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Programme
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| Monday | ||
| 12:00–14:00 | Registration and lunch | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Gerhard Hiss | The Weil–Steinberg character of finite classical groups |
| 15:00–16:00 | Götz Pfeiffer | Quiver presentations for descent algebras |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea | |
| 16:30–17:30 | Lacri Iancu | Combinatorics of Kazhdan–Lusztig cells |
| Tuesday | ||
| 9:30–10:30 | Carlos André | Supercharacters and superclasses of finite unipotent groups |
| 10:30–11:00 | Tea | |
| 11:00–12:00 | Anton Evseev | Characters of the group of unitriangular matrices and other algebra groups |
| 12:00–13:00 | Tung Thien Le | Characters of the unitriangular groups |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30–15:30 | David Craven | Tensor products of modular representations in groups of Lie type |
| 15:30–16:00 | Tea | |
| 16:00–17:00 | Michel Broué | Brauer and Lusztig |
| 18:30 for 19:00 | Conference dinner | |
| Wednesday | ||
| 9:30–10:30 | Frank Himstedt | Characters of parabolic subgroups of the big Ree groups |
| 10:30–11:30 | Rod Gow | Characters of certain parabolic subgroups and their applications to matrix problems |
| 11:30–12:00 | Tea | |
| 12:00–13:00 | Martin Liebeck | Unipotent classes in classical groups |
| 13:00– | Lunch |
All talks will be held in Lecture Room A in the Watson Building, which houses the School
of Mathematics. Registration will be in the Maths Learning Centre on the first floor of
the Watson building. Tea will be served in the Maths Learning Centre. The conference dinner will
be held in the Astor Suite on the third floor of Staff House.
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Supported by the London Mathematical Society 
and EPSRC Network Grant EP/F029381/1 Representation Theory Across the Channel |