Wed, 21 Oct 2009
11:30 -
12:30
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
On the Semisimplicity Problem for Group Rings
Peter Pappas
(Vassar College)
Abstract
The semisimplicity problem is the long-standing conjecture that the group algebra $KG$ of a $p'$-group $G$ over a field $K$ of characteristic $p\geqslant 0$ has zero Jacobson radical. We will discuss recent advances in connection with this problem.