Research seminars

Seminare und Vorträge im SS 2025

DateLecturerSeminarThemeTimeLocation
14 Apr 2025Lukas Bonfert
(Universität Bonn)
Representation TheoryCharacterizing silting t-structures via derived projectives

Abstract: Weight structures (also known as co-t-structures) and t-structures on triangulated categories are closely related by orthogonality. In terms of silting collections and simple-minded collections, the characterization of orthogonality is very similar to the relation of the indecomposable projectives to the simple objects in an abelian category. In my talk I will explain how this observation can be formalized using derived projective covers, which are an analog of projective covers for triangulated categories. This leads to a characterization of silting t-structures. If time permits, I will also discuss a result about Koszul duality between simple-minded and silting collections. The talk is based on arXiv:2309.00554.
Tuesday 4:00 pm (CET)in person
22 Apr 2025Kyungmin Rho (Universität Paderborn)Representation TheoryCohen-Macaulay modules from Fukaya category of surfaces

Abstract: Burban-Drozd (2017) introduced the category of triples to classify all indecomposable Cohen-Macaulay modules over certain non-isolated surface singularities. They showed that this category is representation-tame, with indecomposable objects of either band or string type. Via homological mirror symmetry, these modules correspond to loops and arcs in the Fukaya category of the mirror symplectic surface. In this talk, we explicitly describe this correspondence using the localized mirror functor developed by Cho–Hong–Lau (2017), and present its applications for algebraic operations such as the Auslander–Reiten translation. We also examine its connection with the derived category of gentle algebras associated to the same surface. This is based on joint work with Cho–Jeong–Kim–Rho (2022) and Cho–Rho (2024).
Tuesday 4:00 pm (CET)in person
29 Apr 2025Callum Page (University of Plymouth)Representation TheoryThick subcategories of derived categories of gentle algebras

Abstract: In this talk, I will present a classification of the thick subcategories generated by string objects in the derived category of a gentle algebra. Such a thick subcategory is generated by a set of objects corresponding to a collection of arcs on the derived category’s geometric model. I will use properties of the geometric model to show that any thick subcategory generated by string objects has a generating set corresponding to a non-crossing collection of arcs. I will then discuss the poset structure of the set of non-crossing collections of arcs and how this induces a poset structure on the thick subcategories generated by string objects. This talk is based on the preprint arxiv:2502.12023.
Tuesday 4:00 pm (CET)in person
30 Apr 2025Michael Wemyss (University of Glasgow, UK)Representation TheoryTuesday 4:00 pm (CET)online
06 May 2025Yuming Liu
(Beijing Normal University)
Representation TheoryTBATuesday 2:00 pm (CET)online
06 May 2025Li Fan
(Tsinghua University)
Representation TheoryTBATuesday 4:00 pm (CET)in person
13 May 2025Kai Meng Tan
(National University of Singapore)
Representation TheoryCores and core blocks of Ariki-Koike algebras

Abstract: This talk will consist of two parts. In the first part, we will see how certain results (such as the Nakayama 'Conjecture') for the symmetric groups and Iwahori-Hecke algebras of type A can be generalised to Ariki-Koike algebras using the map from the set of multipartitions to that of (single) partitions first defined by Uglov. In the second part, we look at Fayers's core blocks, and see how these blocks may be classified using the notion of moving vectors which was first introduced by Yanbo Li and Xiangyu Qi. If time allows, we will discuss Scopes equivalences between these blocks arising as a consequence of this classification.
Tuesday 4:00 pm (CET)in person
28 May 2025 Nick Williams
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Representation theory, geometry and mathematical physics Steenrod operations via higher Bruhat orders

Abstract. The cohomology of a topological space has a ring structure via the cup product. The cup product is defined at the level of cochains, where it is not commutative, but it becomes commutative at the cohomology level. At the cochain level, the lack of commutativity is resolved homotopically by an infinite tower of higher products, known as the Steenrod cup-i products. This additional structure provides more refined information which can be used to tell apart non-homotopy-equivalent spaces. In this talk, I will explain recent work with Guillaume Laplante-Anfossi, where we show how conceptual proofs of the key properties of Steenrod's cup-i products can be given using the higher Bruhat orders of Manin and Schechtman.
Wednesday 2-3 pm CETonline
25 Jun 2025Travis Schedler
(Imperial College London, UK)
Representation theory, geometry and mathematical physics Wednesday 2-3 pm CETonline