Combinatorics, representations, and structure of Lie type 16-17 February 2012

All talks will be in the Russell Love Theatre in the Richard Berry building at the University of Melbourne.

Schedule of talks

Thursday, 16 February

9:45-10

Opening and welcome.

10-11

Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin): A Talk on the Weyl Side.

11:15-12:15

Xuhua He (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): Minimal length elements in a conjugacy class of an affine Weyl group.

2:15-3:15

Amy Glen (Murdoch University): Combinatorics of Lyndon words.

3:30-4:30

Paul Sobaje (University of Melbourne): Support varieties for reductive groups.

Friday, 17 February

10-11

Sangjib Kim (University of Queensland): Representations of classical groups and partially ordered sets.

11:15-12:15

Anne Thomas (University of Sydney): Cocompact lattices on Ã₂ buildings.

2:15-3:15

Jacqui Ramagge (University of Wollongong): TBA.

3:30-4:30

Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin): Walks on Diagrams.

Funding

This conference is supported by funding from the Australia Research Council. Some funds may be available to support interested participants with limited travel support, especially students. Please contact the organizers if such support is needed.

Registration

There is no official registration, or registration fee.

Organizers

Arun Ram, Lawrence Reeves, Craig Westerland.