Summer School

on 

Finite Groups and Related Geometrical Structures

VENEZIA
September 5th to 15th, 2007


 
PROGRAMME


The following is a preliminary programme and may be subject to changes. More detailed information will be given.
 

The themes of the lectures will be:

Donna Testerman: Subgroup Structure and Representation Theory of Semisimple Algebraic Groups

Gunter Malle: Subgroup Structure and Maximal Subgroups of Finite Groups of Lie Type 
 
 

Prerequisites: Familiarity with the following topics would be helpful:

  1. First notions of algebraic geometry (as treated in sections 1,2, and 3 of Humphrey's Linear Algebraic Groups or chapter 1 of Springer's Linear Algebraic Groups).
  2. Root systems
  3. Complex semisimple Lie algebras
  4. Coxeter groups
  5. Spaces with forms and isometry groups


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Beginning: Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 9.30am.

End: Saturday, September 15th 2007 at 1.00pm.
 
 

Day schedule:

  9.30am - 11.00am: Lecture 1
11.00am - 11.30am: Break
11.30am -   1.00pm: Lecture 2

Class problem sections on Thursday 6th, Monday 10th, Wednesday 12th and Friday 14th 
with the following schedule:

15.30pm - 16.30pm: Class problem section 1
16.30pm - 17.00pm: Break
17.00pm - 18.00pm: Class problem section 2

 

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