Research

Algebra and Lie research groups | Network of Ontario Lie Theorists | Seminars | Algebra seminar | Lie seminar |

Upcoming Activity

Perspectives in representation theory |

Teaching

MAT 2742 | MAT 1302 | Sessional Dates |

Alistair Savage Associate Professor Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa 585 King Edward Ave. Ottawa, Ontario Canada   K1N 6N5 E-mail: alistair.savage "at-sign" uottawa "dot" ca Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 3513 Office: KED 207G Summer office hours / Heures de bureau pendant l'été: By appointment / sur rendez-vous

Research Interests

• Representations of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
• Geometric and combinatorial representation theory
• Quivers and quiver varieties
• Quantum groups and crystal bases
• Categorification

Background

I am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Algebra and Lie Theory Groups as well as the Network of Ontario Lie Theorists. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia and my Ph.D. at Yale University under the supervision of Igor Frenkel. After graduating, I spent a semester at the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, Germany before spending two and a half years as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Fields Institute. My current research involves the use of geometric, combinatorial, and categorical methods to study various topics in representation theory.

Upcoming Workshops/Conferences

The following is a list of upcoming workshops, conferences or seminars in which I am involved either as an organizer or a participant. If you would like to be added to a mailing list for updates on algebra-related mathematical events happening in Ottawa (and perhaps other places), please send me an email. For a list of talks I have given in the past, see here.

• Perspectives in representation theory, a conference celebrating the 60th birthday of Igor Frenkel, Yale University, May 12–17, 2012.
• Algebraic and combinatorial approaches to representation theory, UC Riverside, May 18–20, 2012.
• Representation theory and symplectic algebraic geometry (website), Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Marseille, France, July 9–13, 2012.
• Lie algebras and applications, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 6–8, 2012.
• 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 9–12, 2013. I am co-organizing a special session on Lie algebras, algebraic transformation groups and representation theory.

Information on upcoming workshops and conferences in Ottawa (and sometimes other places) can be found by clicking on the "Upcoming Activity" links to the right.