The School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Algebra Seminar by John Murray

All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.

All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.

10 May 2012, 16:15 - 17:15

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Characteristic 2: a survey.

We give a potted history of the development of special techniques in the representation theory of finite groups over a field of characacteristic 2. Topics may include the Frobenius-Schur theorem on involutions and its various generalizations (due to Mackey, Gow and Kawanaka- Matsuyama), the study of real blocks (due to Brauer, Gow and M.) and various types of bilinear forms (Sin-Willems and Gow-Willems), self-dual Morita theory (Willems-Zimmerman) and involutary actions (on conjugacy classes, algebras, vertices and fusion categories).

Speaker: John Murray (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)