Representations of finite groups of Lie type and their subgroups

Monday 15th–Wednesday 17th December 2008

School of Mathematics

University of Birmingham

Programme
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.
Supported by the London Mathematical Society
London Mathematical Society
and
EPSRC Network Grant EP/F029381/1
Representation Theory Across the Channel