London Algebra Colloquium

Imperial College London   Queen Mary, University of London

Colloquia at Imperial College London, January–June 2012


For this period the London Algebra Colloquium was held in Imperial College London. The time was Thursdays at 4:45pm as usual, in lecture room 130. We met 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 next term’s seminars can also be found here.

The programme for this term (these terms) was 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 Dawid Kielak (Oxford)
Linear and free representations of Out(Fn)
 
8th March Jonathan Kiehlmann (Imperial)
Strange isomorphisms and abelian profinite groups
 
15th March John MacQuarrie (Bristol)
Modular Representations of Profinite Groups
 
22nd March Peter Kropholler (Glasgow) CANCELLED
Groups with presentations where the generators weigh more than the relators
 
Easter break
 
17th May Aner Shalev (Jerusalem)
More words on words
 
24th May Ian Leary (Southampton)
Platonic polygonal complexes
 
31st May Arturo Pianzola (University of Alberta)
Reductive group schemes, Torsors, and Extended Affine Lie Algebras

John N. Bray
13th September 2012