Seminars in Algebra and Topology
Listed below are the upcoming and past Algebra and Topology Seminars,
as well as seminars in other series (including the MSI Colloquium and
Graduate Students Seminar) which may be of interest to algebraists.
Unless otherwise stated,
seminars are held in the Bernhard Neumann Seminar Room (G35)
of the John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (#27).
Tuesday afternoon Algebra and Topology Seminars are usually
preceded by afternoon tea, from 3:30pm in the Kurt Mahler Room (2143).
All are welcome.
Click on the title of a talk to view the abstract, where available.
Next Seminars
Semistrict models of connected 3-types and Tamsamani's weak 3-groupoids
Simona Paoli
Macquarie University
4pm Thursday 09 February 2006
(MSI Colloquium)
Past Seminars
Rump's criterion for full decomposability of all generalised lattices over a classical order
Michael Butler
University of Liverpool
4pm Tuesday 7 February 2006
On theorems by C.Jordan and K.Kuratowski
Helge Tverberg
University of Bergen
4pm Thursday 2 February 2006
(MSI Colloquium)
Vertex algebras and their applications in mathematics and physics
Yuly Billig
Carleton University and University of Sydney
4pm Tuesday 28 November 2005
Analytic functors and representations of wreath products
Anthony Henderson
University of Sydney
4pm Thursday 27 October 2005
(MSI Colloquium)
Quiver varieties and zero weight spaces
Anthony Henderson
University of Sydney
4pm Tuesday 1 November 2005
Graphs associated with character degrees of finite groups: a survey and some new results
Emanuele Pacifici
Università di Milano
4pm Tuesday 18 October 2005
Ramanujan's contributions to Eisenstein series especially in his Lost Notebook
Bruce Berndt
University of Illinois
4pm Tuesday 11 October 2005
Theory and computation in representation theory
Len Scott
University of Virginia
4pm Monday 23 May 2005
Note unusual day
Invariant theory and a curious problem in quantum information
Trevor Welsh
University of Southampton
4pm Tuesday 17 May 2005
Abstract homotopy theory in complex analysis and geometry
Finnur Larusson
University of Western Ontario
4pm Tuesday 10 May 2005
Some localizations of Segal spaces
Hugh Robinson
MSI
4pm Tuesday 05 April 2005
Hall algebras
Bertrand Toen
Toulouse
4pm Tuesday 29 March 2005
Detecting the growth of free-group automorphisms
Adam Piggott
University of Oxford
4pm Tuesday 14 December 2004
A characterization of semi-linear groups and an application
Carlo Casolo
University of Florence
4pm Tuesday 7 December 2004
The homotopy type of the p-subgroup complex of a finite group
Carlo Casolo
University of Florence
4pm Tuesday 16 November 2004
The resolution of the k(GV) problem for odd order groups G
Ingrid Chen
MSI
4pm Wednesday 3 November 2004
(Honours Students Seminar)
A space `at infinity' for totally disconnected, locally compact groups
Udo Baumgartner
University of Newcastle
4pm Tuesday 02 November 2004
On Klyachko's Theorem on Lie representations
Ralph Stöhr
University of Manchester
4pm Tuesday 26 October 2004
Coherence for higher homotopy commutativity
Michael Batanin
Macquarie University
4pm Tuesday 19 October 2004
Contact group actions and stratified spaces
Eugene Lerman
MSI
4pm Thursday 14 October 2004
(MSI Colloquium)
Computational approach to Higman's PORC conjecture
Brett Witty
MSI
3pm Wednesday 15 September 2004
(Graduate Students Seminar)
An analogue of holonomy for simplicial complexes above dimension 1
Ezra Getzler
Northwestern University
2pm Friday 10 September 2004
(MSI Colloquium)
Note unusual day and time
Witt vectors and real mathematics
James Borger
University of Chicago
4pm Thursday 26 August 2004
(MSI Colloquium)
On products of finite groups
Adolfo Ballester Bolinches
Universitat de Valencia
4pm Tuesday 24 August 2004
The challenge of deciding in/finiteness of groups
Mike Newman
MSI
4pm Tuesday 17 August 2004
The finite p-soluble minimal non-p-supersoluble groups
Ramon Esteban Romero
Universitat de Politecnica de Valencia
4pm Tuesday 10 August 2004
Divisors on principal homogenous spaces under abelian varieties
Joost van Hamel
University of Sydney
4pm Tuesday 13 July 2004
Wreath decompositions of
finite groups with trivial centre
Laci Kovács
MSI
4pm Tuesday 6 July 2004
Nilpotent
primitive linear groups
Dane Flannery
National University of Ireland
4pm Tuesday 22 June 2004
Classical invariant
theory and statistics
Amnon Neeman
MSI
4pm Tuesday 15 June 2004
Classical
invariant theory meets statistics
Amnon Neeman
MSI
4pm Thursday 10 June 2004
(MSI Colloquium)
Some
interesting subgroups of primitive wreath products
Csaba Schneider
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
4pm Tuesday 4 May 2004
The
Riemann-Roch Theorem for Curves
Jason Lo
MSI
2pm Thursday 29 April 2004
(Graduate students seminar)
Group
gradings on algebras, with applications to group theory
Yuri Bahturin
Memorial University of Newfoundland
4pm Tuesday 27 April 2004
Subgroup lattices and group
actions
Cheryl Praeger
University of Western Australia
4pm Friday 16 April 2004
(MSI Colloquium)
Extended
Albanese motives and the arithmetic of linear algebraic groups
Joost van Hamel
University of Sydney
4pm Tuesday 16 March 2004
Algorithmically
classifying conjugacy classes of GL(n,q)
Brett Witty
MSI
4pm Wednesday 10 March 2004
(Graduate students seminar)
Structure theorems for quantized enveloping algebras
Anthony Joseph
Weizmann Institute
4pm Tuesday 2 December 2003
Elliptic Curves and the ABC Conjecture
Victor Scharaschkin
University of Queensland
4pm Tuesday 9 December 2003
Canonical Singularities for
Orders
Daniel Chan
UNSW
4pm Tuesday 11 November 2003
Colouring maps and graphs
Chris Wetherell
MSI
3pm Wednesday 29 October 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
Some fractals in the representation theory of
symmetric and general linear groups
Karin Erdmann
University of Oxford
4pm Thursday 16 October 2003
(MSI Colloquium)
Groups with strong Wielandt
length two
Chris Wetherell
MSI
3pm Wednesday 8 October 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
Type A Hecke algebras,
Clifford algebras, rank varieties
Karin Erdmann
Oxford University
4pm Tuesday 7 October 2003
Bijections for integer
partition identities
Brett Witty
MSI
3pm Wednesday 3 September 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
Complex geometry and
abstract homotopy theory
Finnur Larusson
University of Western Ontario
4pm Tuesday 2 September 2003
Introduction
to classification of varieties
Miles Reid
University of Warwick
4pm Thursday 31 July 2003
(MSI Colloquium)
The derived equivalence and birational geometry
Yujiro Kawamata
University of Tokyo
4pm Tuesday 29 July 2003
Monstrous Moonshine
Brett Witty
MSI
2:15pm Wednesday 4 June 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
Factorisation of formation
residuals in finite groups
Chris Wetherell
MSI
4pm Tuesday 4 February 2003
Algebraic curves
Jason Lo
University of Sydney
2:15pm Wednesday 29 January 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
K-theory on triangulated categories
Ben Whale
University of Auckland
2:15pm Wednesday 22 January 2003
(Graduate students seminar)
Valuation Theory for division
algebras, Application to reduced K-theory
Roozbeh Hazrat
ANU
4pm Tuesday 10 December 2002
Toeplitz matrices, total
positivity, and quantum cohomology
Konstanze Rietsch
King's College London
4pm Tuesday 3 December 2002
The P!-Theorem and the
P~!-Theorem
Gemma Parmeggiani
University of Padova
4pm Tuesday 26 November 2002
The Dehn function of Nilpotent
Groups
Derek Holt
The University of Warwick
4pm Thursday 21 November 2002
(MSI Colloquium)
Permutability of subnormal subgroups
Chris Wetherell
MSI
2:15pm Wednesday November 2002
(Graduate students seminar)
Homotopy (co-)limits in
Algebra and topology
Emmanuel Farjoun
The Hebrew University
4pm Tuesday 12 November 2002
Green functions for symmetric spaces over a finite field
Anthony Hendersen
University of Sydney
4pm Tuesday 10 September 2002
A census of perfect groups with short presentations
George Havas
University of Queensland
2pm Thursday 2 May 2002
(note unusual day)
Solving the diophantine equation
x2-Dy2=N for nonsquare
D>1
Keith Matthews
University of Queensland
4pm Tuesday 12 March 2002
Counting Small Latin Squares
Wendy Myrvold
Deptartment of Computer Science, University of Victoria
4pm Tuesday 19 February 2002
Moran G008
Grothendieck's
p-curvature
Conjecture and Generic curves
Mark Kisin
University of Muenster
1pm Tuesday 15 January 2002
Theatre 4 Manning Clark Centre
Ranks of elliptic curves
Alice Silverberg
University of Ohio
Thursday 29 November 2001
(MSI Colloquium)
Automorphisms fixing subnormal subgroups of
finitely generated
infinite metabelian groups
Tamiru Jarso
MSI
4pm Tuesday 13 November 2001
The embedding of a cyclic permutable subgroup in a finite group
Stewart Stonehewer Speaker
University of Warwick
4pm Tuesday 30 October 2001
Periodicity and almost periodicity in the (co)homology
of algebras
Sheila Brenner
University of Liverpool
4pm Monday 15 October 2001
Permutation groups of finite type
Clara Franchi
University of Padova
4pm Tuesday 28 August 2001
Rational points and etale cohomology
Joost van Hamel
Sydney University
4pm Tuesday 14 August 2001
Sylow permutable subnormal subgroups of finite groups
Ramon Esteban
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
4pm Tuesday 7 August 2001
Exact sequences of
abelian groups and sums of Hermitian matrices
Allen Knudsen
University of California, Berkley
4pm Tuesday 31 July 2001
The tree lattice existence theorems
Lisa Carbone
Harvard University
Wednesday 18 July 2001
Thin Lie Algebras
David Young
MSI
4pm Tuesday 15 May 2001
Torsion in Lie Groups
Richard Kane
University of Western Ontario and University of Sydney
3:30pm Friday 11 May 2001
Rm 1179
Symmetric and exterior powers
Steve Donkin
Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
4pm Tuesday 1 May 2001
Finite line-transitive linear spaces
Cheryl Praeger
University of Western Australia
10am Thursday 19 April 2001
The Grigorchuk group
Susan McKay
University of London
4pm Tuesday 10 April 2001
Extremal projection operators for Lie algberas and their
applications
Valery Tolstoy
Moscow State University
4pm Tuesday 12 December 2000
From Menet Khufu to quanta through Rijndael: a short trip into fubswrorjb
Giuseppe Jurman
MSI
4pm Thursday 19 October 2000
(MSI Colloquium)
An unusual abelian category
Amnon Neeman
MSI
4pm Tuesday 12 September 2000
The Deligne 2-groupoid and deformation theory
Ezra Getzler
Northwestern University
4pm Tuesday 2 May 2000
Permutation groups and Cartesian decompositions
Csaba Schneider
MSI
4pm Wednesday 26 April 2000
Free Lia algebras as modules
Roger Bryant
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
4pm Tuesday 18 April 2000
Zeta functions of groups
Marcus du Sautoy
University of Cambridge
4pm Tuesday 23 November 1999
A classification of locally finite simple groups?
Otto Kegel
University of Freiburg
4pm Tuesday 12 October 1999
A classification of locally finite simple groups?
Otto Kegel
University of Freiburg
4pm Tuesday 5 October 1999
A classification of locally finite simple groups?
Otto Kegel
University of Freiburg
4pm Tuesday 28 September 1999
Traces for modules
Bernhard Keller
Universite Paris
4pm Tuesday 24 August 1999
Mysteries of the Monster
John Conway
Princeton University
11am Friday 20 August 1999
Subnormal Structure of Finite Soluble Groups
Chris Wetherell
MSI
4pm Tuesday 17 August 1999
p-groups of small breadth
Gemma Parmeggiani
University of Padova
4pm Tuesday 3 August 1999
Categories of partial maps
Steven Lack
Sydney
4pm Tuesday 8 June 1999
The derived series of finite p-groups
Csaba Schneider
CMA
and
Metabelian thin Lie algebras
David Young
CMA
4pm Tuesday 1 June 1999
Modular graded Lie algebras of maximal class
Giuseppe Jurman
CMA
4pm Tuesday 20 April 1999
Smirnov's work on Groethendieck's standard conjectures
Amnon Neeman
University of Virginia
4pm Tuesday 30 March 1999
Matrices and their characteristic polynomials
Andrew Spencer
The University of Oxford
4pm Tuesday 23 February 1999
Line-transitive group actions on finite linear spaces
Cheryl Praeger
The University of Western Australia
4pm Tuesday 16 February 1999
Separation theorems for group actions
Peter Neumann
The University of Oxford
4pm Tuesday 9 February 1999