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Algebraic Combinatorics - Ben Webster
2023-07-06 13:00 (America/Toronto)
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.
