Schedule
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: NO CLASSES ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 14TH and hand in your Week 12 homework by Tuesday November 30th, if you wish to have your assignment marked and returned by the last lecture on Tuesday December 7th
| Week 1 | |
| Date: September 7, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-S623 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik Lenstra and Hans Cuypers | |
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Topics: Background from Group Theory; Theorems of Frobenius and Burnside,
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| Week 2 | |
| Date: September 14, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Background from Group Theory; Permutation groups, Sylow Subgroups, Theorems by Frobenius and Burnside and their proofs | |
| Week 3 | |
| Date: September 21, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: Modules and group representations | |
| Week 4 | |
| Date: September 28, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Semi-simple modules and Wedderburn's theorem | |
| Week 5 | |
| Date: October 5, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: Tensor products | |
| Week 6 | |
| Date: October 12, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: Tensor products and exact sequences | |
| Week 7 | |
| Date: October 19, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Group rings, Maschke's Theorem, Group ring of Abelian groups | |
| Week 8 | |
| Date: October 26, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-C121 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Group rings; Frobenius Theorem on the decomposition into irreducibles | |
| Week 9 | |
| Date: November 2, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: Characters | |
| Week 10 | |
| Date: November 9, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: Orthogonality relations for characters | |
| Week 11 | |
| Date: November 16, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Character values and Burnside's Theorem | |
| Week 12 | |
| Date: November 23, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hans Cuypers | |
| Topics: Frobenius Theorem | |
| Week 13 | |
| Date: November 30, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| Topics: TBA | |
| Week 14 | |
| Date: December 7, 2010 | |
| Place: Vrije Universiteit, WN-M607 | |
| Lecturer: Hendrik W. Lenstra | |
| TBA | |
| Week 15 - NO CLASSES THIS WEEK! | |
| Date: December 14, 2010 | |
| Place: No classes this week! | |
| Lecturer: TBA | |
| TBA | |