Schedule for: 17w5003 - New Perspectives in Representation Theory of Finite Groups

Beginning on Sunday, October 15 and ending Friday October 20, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, October 15
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, October 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:45 Jesper Grodal: Endotrivial modules via homotopy theory (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:15 Eugenio Giannelli: Restriction of characters to Sylow $p$-subgroups (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the Corbett Hall Lounge for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:15 Cédric Bonnafé: Equivariant cohomology and fixed points of smooth Calogero-Moser spaces (TCPL 201)
16:20 - 16:50 Noelia Rizo Carrión: Blocks relative to a character of a normal subgroup (TCPL 201)
16:55 - 17:25 Olivier Brunat: On some cases of the Navarro conjecture for the alternating groups (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, October 17
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Charles Eaton: Morita equivalence and normal subgroups of index $p$ (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Jiping Zhang: On inductive blockwise Alperin weight conditions (TCPL 201)
11:05 - 11:35 Alexandre Turull: Some refinements of Dade's projective conjecture (TCPL 201)
11:35 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:15 Paul Fong: The Alperin weight conjecture for symmetric and general linear groups revisited (TCPL 201)
14:20 - 14:50 Ruwen Hollenbach: On the Malle-Robinson conjecture for groups of Lie type (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:15 Amanda Schaeffer Fry: On Galois automorphisms acting on characters and the Sylow 2-normalizer conjectures (TCPL 201)
16:20 - 17:05 Jay Taylor: Structure of root data and smooth regular embeddings (TCPL 201)
17:10 - 17:40 Discussion: The future of the inductive conditions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, October 18
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Susanne Danz: On integral representations of symmetric groups (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:15 Raphael Rouquier: Generic modular representations and Hilbert schemes of surfaces (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, October 19
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:45 Benjamin Sambale: On the blockwise modular isomorphism problem (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 10:55 Shigeo Koshitani: Puig equivalence conjecture for 2-blocks (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:25 Caroline Lassueur: On Puig equivalences for blocks with dihedral defect groups (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:15 Dan Rossi: Fields of character values in finite groups (TCPL 201)
14:20 - 14:50 Lucas Ruhstorfer: Navarro's conjecture for simple groups of Lie type in defining characteristic (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:15 Hung Nguyen: On the average degree of characters (TCPL 201)
16:20 - 16:50 Jean-Baptiste Gramain: Perfect isometries and basic sets (TCPL 201)
16:55 - 17:25 Joan Tent: Solvable groups with character values in ${\mathbb Q}_p$ (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, October 20
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:30 Alessandro Paolini: Bad primes and character degrees in finite groups of Lie type (TCPL 201)
09:35 - 10:20 Zoltan Halasi: On Pyber's base size conjecture (TCPL 201)
10:25 - 11:10 Robert Boltje: Morita equivalences with endopermutation source (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)