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THE
FIELDS INSTITUTE
FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
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July
3-6, 2012
WORKSHOP ON ALGEBRAIC
MONOIDS, GROUP EMBEDDINGS
AND ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS
Hosted by the Fields Institute
Organizers:
Mahir Can (Tulane), Zhenheng Li (University Of South Carolina),
Benjamin Steinberg (Carleton), Qiang Wang (Carleton)
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Overview
The Workshop will consist of 3 minicourses on introductory topics
aimed at graduate students staggered throughout the four days. These
tutorials will introduce the necessary background for the remaining
research talks, which form the second component of the workshop.
We anticipate that these research talks will outline future directions
of research and lead to active collaborations between the participants.
It is anticipated that the nature of this event will attract interaction
between researchers of different countries and enable graduate students
from various universities to communicate directly with each other.
This workshop, which is funded by both Fields Institute and NSF,
is in honour of the 60th birthdays of Mohan Putcha and Lex Renner,
and will be taking place at the Fields Institute.
The main goal of the proposed workshop is to stimulate research
on the interplay between algebraic monoids, group embeddings and
algebraic combinatorics. By fostering contact between people with
different backgrounds and strengths, we hope to gain a better understanding
of algebraic monoids, including both their structure and their representation
theory. Another central goal of the workshop is to seek a better
understanding of the connections between algebraic monoids and the
geometry of embeddings. Reductive monoids are group embeddings of
a particular kind. They can be understood as reductive monoids,
and also as spherical varieties. Their structure is sufficiently
rich to provide hints and examples for more general problems about
spherical varieties. Another aim of this workshop is to catalyze
the interactions between combinatorics and algebraic monoids to
further the understanding of the representation theory of an arbitrary
(reductive) monoid and to further enrich the theory of combinatorics.
Finally, it is an important goal of this workshop to prepare graduate
students for research in this area and in particular to suggest
thesis projects.
List of Participants as of May 24, 2012
| Full Name |
University/Affiliation |
| Aker, Kür?at |
?stanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi |
| Benkart, Georgia |
University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| Bergeron, Nantel |
York University |
| Brion, Michel |
Universit de Grenoble I |
| Can, Mahir Bilen |
Tulane University |
| Denton, Tom |
York University/ Fields Institute |
| Doty, Stephen |
Loyola University Chicago |
| Jespers, Eric |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Joyce, Michael |
Tulane University |
| Kaveh, Kiumars |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Li, Zhenheng |
University of South Carolina Aiken |
| Liu, Yu |
Hanshan Normal University |
| Margolis, Stuart |
Bar Ilan University |
| O'Hara, Allen |
University of Western Ontario |
| Okninski, Jan |
Warsaw University |
| Putcha, Mohan |
North Carolina State University |
| Renner, Lex |
University of Western Ontario |
| Sandeep Varma, Vadakkumkoor |
University of Chicago |
| Schilling, Anne |
University of California, Davis |
| Steinberg, Benjamin |
The City College of New York |
| Tang, Xiaomin |
Heilongjiang University |
| Taylor, Dewey |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Therkelsen, Ryan |
Bellarmine University |
| Thiéry, Nicolas M. |
Université Paris Sud 11 |
| Twelbeck, Tim |
Tulane University |
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