Workshop on Lie Powers

A one-day  workshop on Lie powers of group modules and related topics will be held at the University of Manchester on Thursday, 23 September 2010.

Place: Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester, Frank Adams I seminar room

 

Programme:

10.00 TEA/COFFEE

10.30 Roger Bryant (Manchester), "Witt vectors and Lyndon words in the free monoid"

11.30 Marianne Johnson (Manchester), "Towards a modular version of Klyachko's theorem on Lie powers"

12.30 LUNCH

13.45 Peter Symonds (Manchester), "Group actions on rings and varieties and the Brauer construction"

14.45 Susanne Danz (Oxford), "Some computations with the Lie module of the symmetric group"

15.45 TEA/COFFEE

16.15 Karin Erdmann (Oxford), "Metabelian Lie powers"

17.30 PUB AND DINNER
 

Contact: Roger Bryant (roger.bryant@manchester.ac.uk).

All are welcome. The meeting is part of an  EPSRC funded project; and it is the third in a series of workshops on this topic. The first two were held at Oxford in March 2010 and in May 2010.