LMS Durham Symposium:
Representations of Finite Groups and Related Algebras
1-11 July 2002

Draft Timetable

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If any of the speakers have any problems with the times their talks are scheduled, please email Jeremy Rickard (j.rickard@bristol.ac.uk) as soon as possible.

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Monday 1 July

Arrival

Tuesday 2 July

10.15-11.15
Dave Benson
Modules with injective cohomology [Abstract]

11.15
coffee

11.45-12.45
Raphaël Rouquier
A survey of splendid equivalences (1/3)

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-5.00
Kai Meng Tan
On Rouquier blocks of symmetric groups and Schur algebras [Abstract]

5.15-6.15
Gerhard Hiss
Some news on Donovan's conjecture

6.30
sherry reception

7.00
dinner

Wednesday 3 July

9.15-10.15
Susumu Ariki
LLT and representation type of Hecke algebras (1/2)

10.20-11.20
Gabriel Navarro
More on the McKay conjecture

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Raphaël Rouquier
A survey of splendid equivalences (2/3)

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-4.45
Katsuhiro Uno
Modifications and applications of reduction theorems for conjectures on character degrees [Abstract]

4.50-5.20
Alexander Zimmermann
From tilting complexes to unstable modules

5.30-6.30
Markus Linckelmann
title to be announced

7.00
dinner

Thursday 4 July

9.15-10.15
Susumu Ariki
LLT and representation type of Hecke algebras (2/2)

10.20-11.20
Jon Carlson
My last talk on the classification of endotrivial modules (I hope)

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Raphaël Rouquier
A survey of splendid equivalences (3/3)

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-4.45
Leonard Scott
Some empirical and empirically-inspired results in Lie-type modular representation theory [Abstract]

4.50-5.20
Thorsten Holm
Auslander's representation dimension [Abstract]

5.30-6.30
Jørn Olsson
Generalized blocks for symmetric groups

7.00
dinner

Friday 5 July

9.15-10.15
Alexander Kleshchev
Representations of symmetric groups and Kac-Moody algebras (1/2)

10.20-11.20
Lluis Puig
Frobenius systems

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Ian Grojnowski
title to be announced (1/2)

12.45
lunch

Afternoon
Cathedral visit/photograph

7.00
dinner

Saturday 6 July

9.15-10.15
Alexander Kleshchev
Representations of symmetric groups and Kac-Moody algebras (2/2)

10.20-11.20
Everett Dade
Reduction theorems for conjectures of Uno and of Navarro [Abstract]

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Ian Grojnowski
title to be announced (2/2)

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-4.45
Nicole Snashall
Support varieties and Hochschild cohomology rings [Abstract]

4.50-5.20
Naoko Kunugi
An observation on lifting equivalences

5.30-6.30
Christine Bessenrodt
Cartan Matrices for symmetric groups

7.00
dinner

Sunday 7 July

Excursion (Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay)

Monday 8 July

9.15-10.15
Gunter Malle
Springer correspondence for disconnected groups [Abstract]

10.20-11.20
Meinolf Geck
On the decomposition numbers of Hecke algebras

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Gordon James
Representations of general linear groups

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.30-6.30
Graduate students' lectures to be announced (so far we have had offers of talks from:

Frank Himstedt
On the decomposition numbers of Steinberg's triality groups [Abstract]

Max Neunhöffer
Idempotents in symmetric algebras [Abstract]

Robert Hartmann
Endo-monomial modules [Abstract]

7.00
dinner

Tuesday 9 July

9.15-10.15
Andrew Mathas
Tilting modules for cyclotomic Hecke algebras

10.20-11.20
Joe Chuang
Equivalences of derived categories for blocks of symmetric groups

11.20
coffee

11.45-12.45
Robert Boltje
Alperin's weight conjecture and chain complexes

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-5.00
Shigeo Koshitani
On Broué's abelian defect group conjecture [Abstract]

5.15-6.15
Will Turner
RoCK blocks of symmetric groups of nonabelian defect [Abstract]

6.30
reception

7.00
Conference Dinner

Wednesday 10 July

9.25-9.55
Hyohe Miyachi
Uno's conjecture on 1-parameter Iwahori-Hecke algebras [Abstract]

10.05-10.35
Cedric Bonnafé
Around the Mackey formula for Lusztig functors [Abstract]

10.45-11.15
Christakis Pallikaros
Kazhdan-Lusztig cells and parabolic elements in finite Coxeter groups [Abstract]

11.15
coffee

11.45
Steve Donkin
The higher decomposition numbers for SL(3) [Abstract]

12.45
lunch

3.30
tea

4.00-5.00
Jon Alperin
Counting conjectures, past, present, future: an overview

5.15-6.15
Michel Broué
title to be announced

7.00
dinner

Thursday 11 July

Departure.