Representations of finite groups of Lie type and their subgroups

Monday 15th–Wednesday 17th December 2008

School of Mathematics

University of Birmingham

Titles of talks
Carlos André Supercharacters and superclasses of finite unipotent groups
Michel Broué Brauer and Lusztig
David Craven Tensor products of modular representations in groups of Lie type
Anton Evseev Characters of the group of unitriangular matrices and other algebra groups
Rod Gow Characters of certain parabolic subgroups and their applications to matrix problems
Frank Himstedt Characters of parabolic subgroups of the big Rees groups
Gerhard Hiss The Weil–Steinberg character of finite classical groups
Lacri Iancu Combinatorics of Kazhdan–Lusztig cells
Tung Thien Le Characters of the unitriangular Groups
Martin Liebeck Unipotent classes in classical groups
Götz Pfeiffer Quiver Presentations for Descent Algebras
Organizers: Simon Goodwin, Kay Magaard, and Chris Parker.
Supported by the London Mathematical Society
London Mathematical Society
and
EPSRC Network Grant EP/F029381/1
Representation Theory Across the Channel