Summer school:
Lie algebras and their representations

We will run a summer school on "Semisimple complex Lie algebras and their representations" from 7 - 13.9.2003 in Oxford. Accomodation is booked in Sommerville College for 33 pounds/night. Rooms are limited. Please pass the information on to interested students. PhD-students starting in autumn 2003 are welcome to attend. No funding is available.

The focus of the summer school is on the representation theory. It will start by defining and classifying semisimple complex Lie algebras (as necessary for representation theory). The necessary combinatorics of Weyl groups and root systems will be introduced and explained. Then universal enveloping algebras and the PBW theorem will be discussed. Finite-dimensional and some infinite-dimensional representations will be studied and examples will be considered in detail.

Schedule: We will start Monday morning at 9:30 and will end every day around 18:00; the last day will be Friday.

Literature: For example, J.Humphreys, Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory. An example based textbook is W.Fulton and M.Harris, Representation theory. A first course.

Contact Person: Anne Henke (Leicester).

Author: Anne Henke , tel: +44 (0)116 252 5237, e-mail: A.Henke@mcs.le.ac.uk, web-page: http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~ahenke
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