Past Talks
2025-06-10 Category theory reading group: Category Theory in Context: 4.6. Existence of adjoint functors.2025-03-19 Algebra preseminar for a talk by Raphaël Paegelow: quiver representations, Hecke algebras and braid groups associated to complex refection groups, block theory for the Ariki–Koike algebra and the corresponding combinatorics of multipartitions and abacai.2025-02-06 String Diagrams for Hopf Algebras: a half hour talk given as part of the SMSTC course Hopf Algebras. I introduce the use of string diagrams as notation for morphisms in a monoidal category. Then phrase the definition of a Hopf algebra in terms of these diagrams.2024-11-27 Category theory reading group: Category Theory in Context: 2.2. The Yoneda lemma.2024-10-25 Example Showcase: a half hour talk given as part of the AGQ example showcases, talks to other students on the program explaining an example from our area of research. I discussed the boson-fermion correspondence.