London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Imperial College London, January–June 2012

It is probably better to go to http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~nnikolov/LAC.html for this term’s seminars, though I shall try to keep these pages fairly up-to-date.
This term (and next) the London Algebra Colloquium will be held in Imperial College London. The time was Thursdays at 4:45pm as usual, in lecture room 130. We meet for tea at 4:15pm in the common room (Huxley 548).

Details of (all) previous colloquia can be found here.
The previous term’s seminars can also be found here.

The programme (so far) for this term is as follows:

12th January                        John Britnell (Bristol)
The probability that two elements of a finite group are conjugate
 
19th January Benjamin Klopsch (Royal Holloway)
Representation growth of arithmetic groups and invariance under base change
 
26th January Maud de Visscher (City)
Simple modules for the Brauer algebra
 
2nd February Tim Burness (Southampton)
Extremely primitive groups
 
9th February David Stewart (Oxford)
Bounding and unbounding Ext for algebraic groups
 
16th February Jarek Kedra (Aberdeen)
Distortion in Groups
 
23rd February Agata Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh)
A curious encounter of groups and noncommutative rings
 
1st March TBA
TBA
 
8th March TBA
TBA
 
15th March TBA
TBA
 
22nd March Peter Kropholler (Glasgow)
Groups with presentations where the generators weigh more than the relators
 
Easter break
 
??th May TBA
TBA

John N. Bray
7th February 2012