Jan 17 |
What are symmetric functions? 7.1
Polynomial representations of general linear groups 7.A2
Partitions 7.2
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Jan 19 |
Monomial symmetric functions 7.3
Elementary symmetric functions 7.4
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Jan 24 |
The involution ω 7.6
Complete homogeneous symmetric functions 7.5
Power sum symmetric functions 7.7
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Jan 26 |
Scalar product 7.9
Some representation theory
Semistandard Young tableaux 7.10 |
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Jan 31 |
Schur functions 7.10
RSK algorithm 7.11
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Feb 2 |
RSK algorithm and corollaries 7.12-7.14
Classical definition of Schur functions 7.15
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Feb 7 |
Jacobi-Trudi identity 7.16
Summary of representation theory of finite groups
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Feb 9 |
Representations of the symmetric group 7.18 |
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Feb 14 |
Murnaghan-Nakayama rule 7.17
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Feb 16 |
Schur-Weyl duality
Grassmannians and Schubert decomposition |
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Feb 21 |
Schubert varieties
Review of cohomology ring
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Feb 23 |
Schubert calculus |
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Feb 28 |
Chern roots/classes
Lines on a cubic surface
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Mar 2 |
Formulas for number of SYT and SSYT |
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Mar 7 |
Littlewood-Richardson coefficients
Combinatorics of finite abelian p-groups
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Mar 9 |
Hall algebras and Hall polynomials |
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Mar 14 |
Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions, definitions
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Mar 16 |
Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions, Pieri rule
Connection to Hall polynomials |
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Mar 21 | Spring break - no class |
Mar 23 | Spring break - no class |
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Mar 28 | Hall-Littlewood function identities |
Mar 30 | t-deformation of Jacobi-Trudi identity
t-deformation of inner product |
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Apr 4 | Schur Q-functions
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Apr 6 | Projective representation theory |
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Apr 11 | Clifford algebras
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Apr 13 | Guest lecture: Daniel Erman |
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Apr 18 | no class
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Apr 20 | The basic spin representation |
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Apr 25 | Frobenius characteristic map for projective representations
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Apr 27 | Schur Q-functions: wrapup |
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May 2 | no class |
May 4 | Guest lecture: Jordan Ellenberg |