Back to Departmental Colloquium: Spring 2017
Departmental Colloquium
Date: Thursday, Jan 19, 2017
Time: 4:00PM
Location: JWB 335
Andrew Snowden
University of Michigan
Title |
Recent progress in representation stability |
Abstract |
Representation stability is a relatively new field that studies somewhat exotic algebraic structures and exploits their properties to prove results (often asymptotic in nature) about objects of interest. I will describe some of the algebraic structures that appear (and state some important results about them), give a sampling of some notable applications (in group theory, topology, and algebraic geometry), and mention some open problems in the area. |
Representation Theory
Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Group Theory