The symmetric group (Lectures)

Young's lattice
Wilhelm Specht
conjugacy class
Date Topic Read Links
2020–01–06 Permutations
2020–01–08 Factoring permutations [S, §1.1]
2020–01–10 Cycle type email
2020–01–13 Subgroups [S, §1.1]
2020–01–15 Cosets [S, §1.1]
2020–01–17 Representations problem set #1
2020–01–20 Morphisms [S, §1.2]
2020–01–22 Modules [S, §1.3]
2020–01–24 Reducibility research
2020–01–27 Direct Sums [S, §1.5]
2020–01–29 Semisimplicity [S, §1.6]
2020–01–31 Schur's Lemma > problem set #2
2020–02–03 Partitions [S, §2.2]
2020–02–05 Tableaux [S, §2.3]
2020–02–07 Specht modules outline
2020–02–10 Examples [S, §2.4]
2020–02–12 Submodule theorem [S, §2.4]
2020–02–14 Characters problem set #3
Reading week
2020–02–24 Inner products [S, §1.8]
2020–02–26 Character tables [S, §1.9]
2020–02–28 Tensor products problem set #4
2020–03–02 Conjugate Specht modules [S, §2.6]
2020–03–04 Garnir relations [S, §2.5]
2020–03–06 Standard tableaux rough draft
2020–03–09 Robinson–Schensted–Knuth [S, §3.6]
2020–03–11 Viennot's construction [S, §3.6]
2020–03–13 Increasing subsequences problem set #5
2020–03–16 classes suspended
2020–03–18 classes suspended
2020–03–20 classes suspended feedback
2020–03–23 Hook-length formula [S, §3.10]
2020–03–25 Using the hook-length formula [S, §3.10]
2020–03–27 Applications of the hook-length formula problem set #6
2020–03–30 Proving the hook-length formula I
2020–04–01 Proving the hook-length formula II
2020–04–03 Review final paper
2020–04 Oral exam scheduled individually
Exam (14:00–17:00 in Ross Gym)
exam questions
grading rubric