University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics

Algebra Seminar

2007/2008





Date Speaker
 Title
 Time/Location
1/18*
 Angela Gibney
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
 Upper and lower bounds for nef cones of algebraic varieties
 1:00-2:00

KAP 249
1/18*
 Daniel Krashen
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
 TBA
 3:00-4:30

DRB 337
1/28
 Andrew Linshaw
(UCSD)
 Invariant chiral differential operators
3:30-4:30

KAP 249
2/4
 Feodor Malikov
(USC)
 Differential graded algebras, divergent series, and `second quantization'
3:30-4:30

KAP 249
2/25
 Marc Levine
(Northeastern Univ.)
 TBA
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
3/3
 Susan Montgomery
(USC)
 Orthogonal representations of Hopf algebras
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
3/24
 Bao Chau Ngo
(Institute for Advanced Study)
 Geometry of the Hitchin fibration
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
4/7
 Tim Burness
(U. Southampton)
 TBA
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
4/14
 Wieslawa Niziol
(Univ. of Utah)
 A proof of the crystaline conjecture
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
4/21
 Brian Parshall
(Univ. of Virginia)
 Comninatorics of quantum Schur algebras
4:35-5:35

DRB 337
4/28
 Henning Andersen
()
 TBA
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249




Algebra Seminars will typically be held on Monday afternoons at 3:30 in room 249 of KAP. The talks will be preceded by the Departmental Tea at 3:00 in room KAP 248.


Date Speaker
 Title
 Time/Location
8/27
 Georg McNinch
(Tufts University)
 Smoothness of some subgroups of reductive groups
3:30-4:30

DRB 337
8/29
 Michael Collins
(Oxford University, visiting Caltech)
 Linear groups, bismash products, and blocks of characters
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
9/7
 Jon Carlson
(University of Georgia)
 Endotrivial modules
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
9/17
 Julia Pevtsova
(University of Washington)
 The prime spectrum of the tensor-triangulated category of perfect complexes on a stack
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
9/24
 Mircea Voineagu
(USC)
 Around the Suslin conjecture
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
10/1
 Akira Masuoka
(Tsukuba University)
 Abelian and non-abelian second cohomologies of quantized enveloping algebras
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
10/8
 Christian Haesemeyer
(U Illinois Chicago)
 Du Bois invariants and a question of Bass.
3:30-4:30

KAP 249
10/12*
 Miriam Cohen
(Ben Gurion University)
 Characters and a Verlinde type formula for symmetric Hopf algebras
 2:00-3:00*

DRB 337
10/19*
 Alexander Merkurjev
(UCLA)
 Essential dimension of finite p-groups
 4:30-5:30*

DRB 337
10/22
 Vera Serganova
(UC Berkeley)
 On weight representations of sl(n).
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
10/29
 Michelle Manes
(USC)
 Dynamic Modular Curves
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
11/2
 Steve Lichtenbaum
(Brown University)
 TBA
 2:00-3:00

KAP 249
11/19
 Thomas Geisser
(USC)
 Duality via cycle complexes
 3:30-4:30

DRB 337
11/26
 Chuck Weibel
(Rutgers University)
 TBA
 3:30-4:30

KAP 249
12/3
 Michael Aschbacher
(Caltech)
 Fusion systems and p-local finite groups
3:30-4:30

DRB 337