Quantum Topology / Hopf Algebra Seminar
Bhama Srinivasan
UIC
Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras in Representation Theory
Abstract: This talk continues from last week: The idea of
"categorification" has now entered the
representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras and finite
groups of Lie type. Khovanov and Lauda defined certain
algebras using diagrams of the kind familiar to knot theorists.
These algebras now play a role in the categorification
mentioned above. In this talk we will explain some of these ideas.
Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 512