Advanced Seminar on Group Theory

Lehrstuhl für Algebra und Zahlentheorie

Wintersemester 2015/16


Time/Date:
Normally we meet Thursday 16:00 - 17:30. There are also exceptional talks with special dates.
For details (rooms etc.) see schedule below.
Content:
Advanced topics in group theory are discussed in short series of talks and guest lectures.
Organizer:
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Klopsch

Talks

Thursday 17.09.2015
Guest lecture
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Stefan Witzel
(Universität Bielefeld)
Proper finiteness properties of some solvable arithmetic groups
Thursday 24.09.2015
Room: 25.22. 02.81
Thomas Leßmann Train Tracks and fixed points of automorphisms
Friday 02.10.2015
Guest lecture
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 25.22.03.73
Peter Hochs
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
Quantisation commutes with reduction
Monday 19.10.2015
Guest lecture
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 25.22.02.81
Prof. Vladislav Kharchenko
(UNAM, Mexico & Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia)
Noncommutative Galois theory
Thursday 22.10.2015
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 25.22.01.81
Javier Garcia The fakedegree conjecture: character degrees in algebra groups and some rationality questions
Tuesday 16.02.2016
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 25.22.03.73
Richard Gonzales
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima)
Moduli spaces of rational curves on horospherical varieties
Topic: Buildings (Room 25.22.01.81)
Thursday 05.11.2015 Matthias Riepe Finite reflection groups
Thursday 12.11.2015 Leandro Castro Coxeter groups and Coxeter systems
Thursday 19.11.2015 Javier Garcia Coxeter complexes
Thursday 26.11.2015 -- AG Düsseldorf-Wuppertal
Thursday 03.11.2015 Matteo Vannacci Definition and examples of buildings
Thursday 10.12.2015 Elena Klimenko Retractions and the complete system of apartments
Thursday 17.12.2015 Benjamin Klopsch Spherical and thick buildings
Thursday 07.01.2015 Anitha Thillaisumdaram Strongly transitive group actions
Thursday 14.01.2015 -- AG Düsseldorf-Wuppertal
Thursday 21.01.2015 Benno Kuckuck BN pairs and buildings
Thursday 28.01.2015 Steffen Kionke The affine building of SLn
Bachelor Seminar
Tuesday 22.09.2015
Room: 25.22.02.81
14:00 - 15:00
Sandra Kreuß Eine Verallgemeinerung der Kummer-Theorie nach Takahashi
Tuesday 22.09.2015
Room: 25.22.02.81
15:30 - 16:30
Carolin Albrecht Die verallgemeinerte Lamplighter-Gruppe als Automatengruppe

Current Seminar schedule


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