12:00
Quantum Group Representations and Binary Matrix Lattices
Abstract
Quantum Groups are defined as $q$-deformations of the Universal Enveloping Algebra of a Lie Algebra. The study of Quantum Groups have deep connections with many areas in Mathematics and Physics. In this talk, I will focus on Crystal Bases of Quantum Group Representations. Crystal Bases are bases of a representation with properties that let us 'take $q$ to $0$' which gives a combinatorial bare-bone model of the representation. I will go through an example of a crystal base of Braided Exterior Powers of a Quantum Group Representation and relate the combinatorics to that of Binary Matrix Lattices.
15:30
A Century of Graph Theory
Abstract
This illustrated historical talk covers the period from around 1890, when graph theory was still mainly a collection of isolated results, to the 1990s, when it had become part of mainstream mathematics. Among many other topics, it includes material on graph and map colouring, factorisation, trees, graph structure, and graph algorithms.