Algebraic research at York covers a wide spectrum of interests, from pure group theory, representation theory and semigroup theory to applications of algebraic techniques in geometry, quantum physics and biology. The department is a fertile breeding ground for research, with regular organized seminars and study groups complemented by plenty of opportunities for informal discussion. We are also always on the lookout for strong PhD students in all areas of algebra; please get in touch with any member of staff if you want to find out more. For details of individual members' interests, please click here.
We run a weekly Algebra Study Group during termtime. Please contact Michael Bate for details of the current topic, or to be included on the email list for this group.
External speakers in the area of Algebra are usually invited to give a talk in the Algebra Seminar, which is also a forum for internal research seminars. The next talk is shown below.
The York Semigroup meets every week in term time and is a mixture of informal sessions, led by York Semigroup PhD students, and more formal presentations.
Algebra and Representation Theory in the North (ARTIN): The next ARTIN meeting will be held in Lancaster on the 6th-8th September 2012.
Leeds York Lie Theory (LYLT): The most recent LYLT meeting took place in York on November 4th 2009, with talks by Yuri Bazlov (Warwick) and Sibylle Schroll (Leicester).
North British Geometric Group Theory (NBGGT): The last NBGGT meeting was held in Edinburgh on December 8th 2010.
North British Semigroups and Applications Network (NBSAN): The next NBSAN meeting will be held in York on Wednesday 21st November 2012.
Below is an alphabetical list of members of the Algebra Group, with brief descriptions of their (algebraic) research interests. Clicking on the name of a particular member of staff will direct you to their homepage.
The seminar takes place on Mondays from 16:15 in Room G/001 in the James College Nucleus. The typical length of the talks is about 1 hour. The seminar organisers are Michael Bate and Steve Donkin.
Date and time |
Title | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | Power structure on the Grothendieck ring of varieties, with applications to Hilbert schemes and Calogero-Moser spaces | Oleg Chalykh (Leeds) | G/001 |
| May 13, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | W-algebras and Whittaker coinvariants | Simon Goodwin (Birmingham) | G/001 |
| May 20, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | Generalisations of Small Cancellation Theory | Max Neunhöffer (St Andrews) | G/001 |
| June 3, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | TBA | Joseph Grant (Leeds) | G/001 |
| June 10, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | TBA | Evgeny Mukhin (Indianapolis) | G/001 |
| June 17, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | TBA | Alina Vdovina (Newcastle) | G/001 |
| July 1, 2013, 16:15 - 17:15 | TBA | Donna Testerman (EPFL) | G/001 |
The York Semigroup meets every week in term time on Wednesdays at 11.15. It consists of a mixture of informal sessions, led by York Semigroup PhD students and staff, and more formal presentations, including external speakers. The formal sessions are usually advertised well in advance - if you wish to be included on the mailing list please e-mail Vicky Gould.
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Date and time |
Title | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2013, 11:15 - 12:15 | Free idempotent-generated semigroups | Dandan Yang (York) | G/001 |
| May 9, 2013, 10:30 - 11:30 | Semigroups with skeletons and Zappa-Szép products | Rida-e-Zenab (York) | G/010 |
| May 22, 2013, 11:15 - 12:15 | Categorical and semigroup-theoretic descriptions of Bass-Serre Theory | Mark Lawson (Heriot-Watt) | G/001 |
| June 19, 2013, 11:15 - 12:15 | TBA | Tamas Waldhauser (Szeged, Hungary) | G/001 |
See also the full list of York Semigroup talks.
North British Semigroups and Applications Network (NBSAN): The next NBSAN meeting in York will be held 21th November 2012.