Workshop on Representation Theory

The Workshop will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from May 03 to May 09 of 2009.
The talks will be in the period 4-8 May. The workshop is intended for graduate students or researchers who would
like to learn more on Representation Theory, so some background material will be included in the lectures.


List of Speakers and Topics of Lectures

Jannis A. Antoniadis (University of Crete, Iraklio, Crete, Greece)
Artin's conjecture

Michel Broué (Institut Henri-Poincaré, Paris, France)
Harish-Chandra theories, the ordinary one and the generalized one

Maria Chlouveraki (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Blocks and families for cyclotomic Hecke algebras

Pantelis Damianou (University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
Transverse Poisson structures to coadjoint orbits and ADE singularities

Meinolf Geck (Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Specht modules for Hecke algebras

Lacrimioara Iancu (Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Coxeter groups, Iwahori-Hecke algebras, Kazhdan-Lusztig theory

Sinéad Lyle (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
Representations of symmetric groups and related algebras

Maryna Nesterenko (Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Representations of Lie algebras

Anatoly Nikitin (Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Irreducible representations of fundamental groups of physics


Programme. All lectures will take place in the Classic Hotel in Nicosia. The programme can be found here.

Our Sponsors are:
University of Cyprus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Cyprus
Cyprus Tourism Organisation
Department of Antiquities

Should you need any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Workshop Address:
Christos A. Pallikaros
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus
CY 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +357 22 892631
Fax:      +357 22 892601
http://www2.ucy.ac.cy/~pallikar/workshop09.html