When: Wednesday 1:00-2:00 PM (Pacific Time) + 30 min for exercises and discussion.
Where: Evans, Seminar Room 939
Topic: Okounkov-Vershik approach to the representation theory of the symmetric group.
Reading:
A New Approach to the Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups by A. Okounkov and A. Vershik, available HERE.
Young Tableaux Chp 7 by W. Fulton.
...supplemental sources will be added progressively...
We plan to slowly go through the original paper by Okounkov-Vershik, reviewing necessary background concepts in representation theory as needed with connections to combinatorics emphasized.