Valentina Grazian, University of Padova
Exotic fusion systems
Abstract: Fusion systems made their first appearance in a 2006 paper by Puig and have since then been investigated by many researchers around the world. A fusion system is a structure that encodes the properties of conjugation between p-subgroups of a group, for p any prime number. Given a finite group G, it is always possible to define the saturated fusion system realized by G on one of its Sylow p-subgroups S: this is the category where the objects are the subgroups of S and the morphisms are the restrictions of conjugation maps induced by the elements of G. However, not all saturated fusion systems can be realized in this way: when this is the case, we say that the fusion system is exotic. An important research direction involves the study of the behavior of exotic fusion systems (in particular at odd primes). In this talk we will present an overview of recent results concerning the classification of saturated fusion systems on certain families of finite p-groups, highlighting the developments on the understanding of exotic fusion systems at odd primes.


Jerzy Weyman - Jagiellonian University

ADE correspondence for finite free resolutions.

Abstract: I will discuss recent results joint with Lorenzo Guerrieri and Xianglong Ni on finite free resolutions over local rings. The main result is the classification of perfect ideals of codimension 3 in the linkage class of a complete intersection (licci ideals). The proofs are based on a connection of the problem to root systems of type T_{p,q,r}. In particular one proves that if T_{p,q,r} is a graph of type ADE then every perfect ideal with the resolution of corresponding format is licci.