Lectures: | Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m., Friday
9:10 - 10:25 a.m. |
Classroom: |
Lecture Hall 2 |
Instructors: | Kavita Sutar-Deshpande
(January, February) K.V. Subrahmanyam (March, April) |
Email: |
ksutar AT cmi DOT ac
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Reference books: |
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Teaching Assistant: | Shraddha Srivastava (email: shraddha AT cmi DOT ac DOT in) |
Grading (TBA): |
40% - Homework 30% - Midterm All grades will be uploaded on Moodle. |
Attendance to classes is not required but absences will be noted.
Explanation for longer absences is required.
Week |
Topic |
1 (05/01 - 09/01) |
Introduction to representation
theory of finite groups; group algebras; Maschke's theorem,
Schur's lemma. Homework 1 |
2 (12/01 - 16/01) |
Examples of representations;
duals and tensor products of representations. Homework 2 Holiday on 14 January (Pongal). |
3 (19/01 - 23/01) |
Character theory Homework 3 |
4 (26/01 - 30/01) |
Classes cancelled. Holiday on 26 January. Deadline for course registration - 30 January |
5 (02/02 - 06/02) |
Character theory (continued),
restriction and induction. Homework 4 |
6 (09/02 - 13/02) | Normal subgroups and lifted
characters, linear characters, integrality of characters. Homework 5 |
7 (16/02 - 20/02) | Homework 6 |
8 (23/02 - 28/02) |
Mid-semester
exams week. |
9 |
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10 |
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11 |
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12 |
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13 |
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14 |
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15 |
Holiday
on 14 April (Dr. Ambedkar Jayanthi). Holiday on 18 April (Good Friday). |
16 |
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17 (27/04 - 01/05) | Final
exams week. |