Deewang

Reading Seminar on (Modular) Represenation Theory

Summer 2021

This is a reading seminar convened by Prof. Robert Boltje to go through Chapter 1 (currently) of The Block Theory of Finite Group Algebras (Volume 1) by Markus Linckelmann.


Schedule

Dates Chapters
July 1 1.1   Group algebras*
July 6 1.2   Twisted group algebras
July 8 1.3   G-algebras
July 13 1.4   Category algebras
July 15 1.5   Center and commutator subspaces*
July 20 1.6   The Hopf algebra structure of group algebras
July 22 1.7   Blocks and idempotents
July 27 1.8   Composition series and Grothendieck groups
July 29 1.9   Semisimple modules
August 3 1.10   The Jacobson radical
August 5 1.11   On the Jacobson radical of finite group algebras
August 10 1.12   Projective and injective modules
August 12 1.13   Wedderburn's theorem
August 19 1.14   Splitting fields
August 24 1.15   Simple modules of finite group algebras
August 26 1.16   Central simple and separable algebras
August 31 1.17   Complexes and homology
September 2 1.18  Complexes and homotopy*
*presented by yours truly.