LIE THEORY SEMINAR

LIE SEMINAR

Spring 2006 Schedule
Tuesdays at noon in 901 Van Vleck (usually)

If an abstract is available for a talk, you may click on the title of the talk to access it.
Any suggestions/requests for speakers can be directed to
Darren Funk-Neubauer> (University of Wisconsin): ``Leonard Pairs and Modules for the $\Box_q$ Algebra''
TIME: Tuesday January 17 at noon in VV 901.
Georgia Benkart> (University of Wisconsin): ``An Introduction to Extended Affine Lie Algebras''
TIME: Tuesday January 24 at noon in VV 901.
Paul Terwilliger> (University of Wisconsin): ``Some Problems Concerning the Tetrahedron Algebra and q-Tetrahedron Algebra''
TIME: Tuesday February 14 at noon in VV 901.
Arun Ram> (University of Wisconsin): ``Row Reduction and Loop Groups''
TIME: Tuesday February 28 at noon in VV 901.
Meera Mainkar> (Tata Institute): ``Anosov Automorphisms On Nilmanifolds Associated With Graphs''
TIME: Tuesday March 21 at noon in VV 901.
Ben Newton> (University of Wisconsin): ``The Lie Ring Method for Nilpotent Groups''
TIME: Tuesday March 28 at noon in VV 901.
Brian Hartwig> (University of Wisconsin): ``The Classification of Finite Dimensional Irreducible Modules for the Onsager Algebra''
TIME: Tuesday April 4 at noon in VV 901.
John Bowman> (University of Wisconsin): ``Irreducible Modules for the Quantum Affine Algebra U_q(sl_n hat) and its Borel Subalgebra''
TIME: Tuesday April 11 at noon in VV 901.
George Brown> (University of Wisconsin): ``Nonsolvable Lie Algebras of Dimensions 4 and 5 Over Finite Fields''
TIME: Tuesday April 18 at 12:20 in VV 901. (Please note the nonstandard time.)
Darren Funk-Neubauer> (University of Wisconsin): ``What is a quantum group? What is a crystal basis?''
TIME: Tuesday April 25 at noon in VV 901.
Ali Godjali> (University of Wisconsin): ``Terwilliger Algebra of the Hypercube via the action of sl(2,F) on tensor products of F^2.''
TIME: Tuesday May 2 at noon in VV 901.
Don Cartwright> (University of Sydney and Rutgers University): `` Groups Acting Simply Transitively on the Vertices of a Building''
TIME: Friday, May 5 at 2:25 in B333 VV.