Departmental Colloquium

Event Information Some recent results in representation stability
16:10 on Wednesday December 02, 2015
17:00 on Wednesday December 02, 2015
BA6183, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
Andrew Snowden

University of Michigan

In recent years, several groups of researchers have discovered that, in many cases of interest, certain large algebraic structures with large amounts of symmetry behave like small algebraic structures. This principle has been applied to prove a variety of stabilization and finiteness results in many different areas of math. I will give an introduction to the ideas of this new field (called "representation stability"), and discuss some of its applications.