Schur-Weyl dualities, diagram algebras, and the Kronecker problem

Friday 3rd May, 12:05-12:55pm, Carslaw 373

Speaker:

Christopher Bowman (University of Paris 7)

Title:

Schur-Weyl dualities, diagram algebras, and the Kronecker problem

Abstract:

We discuss classical Schur-Weyl duality, its generalisations to diagram algebras, and applications to the Kronecker problem.

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For anyone who would also like to attend the afternoon talk by Anthony Licata at the joint colloquium, a shared taxi will be departing for UNSW shortly after the algebra seminar. The round trip is covered by school colloquium fund.

See the Algebra Seminar web page for information about other seminars in the series.

John Enyang John.Enyang@sydney.edu.au