Algebraic Combinatorics - Ben Webster

Thursday, July 6, 2023 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Title: Modular representations of the symmetric group and categorification (part I)

Speaker: Ben Webster
Affiliation: University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute
Location: MC 5501 and Zoom - please contact Oliver Pechenik for the Zoom link

Abstract: I'll give two talks on the representations of the symmetric group over small finite fields, in particular, their block structure, with an emphasis on the perspective from categorical actions of Lie algebras.  No previous background in modular representation theory will be assumed.