The Course

Textbook

Representations and characters of groups, second edition, by G. James and M. Liebeck.

Grades

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(Very) Tentative Schedule

Week 1 (January 10 - January 14). Introduction and review

Week 2 (January 17 - January 21). Representations, basic definitions

Week 3 (January 24 - January 28). Reducibility and Maschke's Theorem

Week 4 (January 31 - February 4). Reducibility and Schur's Lemma

Week 5 (February 7 - February 11). Regular Representation

Week 6 (February 14 - February 18). Review and Midterm 1

Week 7 (February 21 - February 25). Symmetric group

Week 8 (February 28 - March 4). Symmetric group

Week 9 (March 7 - March 11). Characters

Week 10 (March 14 - March 18). New characters from old

Week -- (March 21 - March 25). Spring Break

Week 11 (March 28 - April 1). New characters from old

Week 12 (April 4 - April 8). Topics

Week 13 (April 11 - April 15). Topics

Week 14 (April 18 - April 22). Topics

Week 15 (April 25 - April 29). Topics

Finals Week (April 30 - May 5).