Algebra Seminar: Coulembier -- The finitary symmetric group algebra in characteristic 2

Kevin Coulembier (University of Sydney) will be speaking in the algebra seminar.  We
will go out for lunch after the talk---all are welcome to join! 

When: 12-1pm Friday August 14 

Where: Carslaw 275 

Title: The finitary symmetric group algebra in characteristic 2 

Abstract: In 1996, Baranov and Kleshchev classified maximal ideals in the finitary
symmetric group algebra over fields of characteristic not 2.  I will present the
corresponding classification in characteristic 2, which deviates slightly from other
characteristics in final statement, and much more significantly in proof.  I will
explain further how this results fits into a deeper, partly conjectural, connection
between prime ideals in the finitary symmetric group algebra and the structure theory of
symmetric tensor categories, in particular the higher Verlinde categories.