Office hours:: MWF 2:30-3:30 and by appointment (just talk to me after class or email me)
Office: APM 5256, tel. 534-2734
Email: hwenzl@ucsd.edu
Teaching assistant: Oded Yacobi, office APM 6341, email:oyacobi@math.ucsd.edu (only for winter quarter)
office hours: Mon. 1-2 and Wed. 4-5 and by appt. (only for winter quarter)
The course will not follow any particular book. The following books will be put on reserve in the library and should become relevant starting about the third week of the course. There are many other books which deal with representation theory of finite groups.
The Symmetric Group : Representations, Combinatorial Algorithms, And Symmetric Functions /Bruce E. Sagan
Representations And Characters Of Groups /Gordon James And Martin Liebeck
Computation of grade:
Homework assignments:
homework assignment for 1/30: homework assignment for 2/6: homework assignment for 2/13: homework assignment for 2/20: homework assignment for 2/27: homework assignment for 3/6: homework assignment for 3/13: practice problems Final Solutions for finalHomework assignments for Spring 2009:
The following books contain most of the material we will cover in connection with computational algebraic geometry. They are also available in electronic form from any UCSD terminal from our library.
Ideals, Varieties, And Algorithms : An Introduction To Computational Algebraic Geometry And Commutative Algebra / David Cox, John Little, Donal O'Shea
Algorithms in Invariant Theory / Bernd Sturmfels, chapter 2
homework assignment for 4/10: homework assignment for 4/17: homework assignment for 4/24: homework assignment for 5/1: homework assignment for 5/8: For the current homework assignment, pages 31-33 of chapter 2 of the book by Sturmfels might be instructive. relevant exercises for qual: Qualifying Exam Spring 2009 Sketches of solutions for qual