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  Schedule of Distinguished Lectures



Symmetry:  A Unifying Thread in Mathematics



Date and Time
Location Activity
April 29

TBA
507 Clark
Coffee
April 29

TBA
507 Clark
Lecture 1

April 29

TBA
The Coonamessett Inn
Banquet
April 30

TBA
507 Clark
Lecture 2


Abstracts and Available Videos




Abstract: Symmetry and cohomology of groups in nature, in music, in first grade arithmetic, in crystallography. Groups in the nineteenth century: Gauss, Galois, Cayley. Groups in the twentieth century: relativity, quantum mechanics, Langlands program, classification of finite simple groups. Finite groups: representation theory, the group algebra. Semisimplicity. Projective and injective modules. Alperin’s conjecture. Tests for projectivity: Chouinard’s theorem, Dade’s lemma. Generic points. π-points, support and cosupport for finite groups; for complete intersections; for finite group schemes; for finite supergroup schemes.










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