Thursday, August 26, 2004

2:00p.m., Room 304
 
Speaker: Dan Nakano and Brian Boe, University of Georgia
 
Title of talk: Support varieties for symmetric groups and Lie algebras
 
Abstract: Support varieties were developed about 25 years ago in the pioneering work of Alperin and Carlson.
 Since that time these module  varieties have played a prominent role in the modern day development of  modular 
representation theory. During the first month of our VIGRE  group we will present introductory lectures on support 
varieties, the  representation theory of symmetric groups/supergroups, and support  varieties of Young/permutation 
modules (from work of Hemmer and Nakano). This will lead us to look at open problems involving the calculation 
of support varieties.