Iain Grant Gordon

Smiley faces I am Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and an EPSRC Leadership Fellow. I am interested in representation theory and its applications.

E-mail:	igordon at ed dot ac dot uk
Telephone:	+44 131 650 4879 (Direct) +44 131 650 5085 (Secretary) +44 131 650 6553 (Fax)
Address:	Room 5622, School of Mathematics, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ.

Apart from being the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, having its Old and New Towns a World Heritage Site and being the home of David Hume, Adam Smith, James Clerk Maxwell, Dolly the Sheep and the Higgs' Boson, the only remarkable thing in Edinburgh is a volcano in the city centre. The city has incredible topography and is a cyclists' dream. Forget the flatlands; look here and here!

The group of post-docs and PhD students in Edinburgh that I am currently working with are: Maria Chlouveraki (EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow); Will Donovan (EPSRC Research Assistant); Rollo Jenkins (PhD student); Joe Karmazyn (PhD student); Guillaume Pouchin (EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow); Chris Spencer (PhD student); Teru Thomas (Seggie Brown Research Fellow)

Publications and preprints
Past, present and future PhD students and Post-docs
CV

Notes for students

Year 4 Representation Theory (Spring 2008)

(Working) seminars

Noncommutative algebra and geometric representation theory

Derived categories of coherent sheaves and representations 2009–2010 (notes will not be correct nor ever be up to date)
Infinite dimensional Lie algebras 2008–2009 (notes are not yet corrected)
Dualising modules and (co)homology: 2006–2007
Hall algebras: 2006–2007
Littelmann Paths: 2007–2008

Links

New Developments in Noncommutative Algebra and its Applications, celebrating Kenny Brown's and Toby Stafford's 60th birthdays, Skye June 2011.
Hausdorff Institute Program on the Interaction of Representation Theory with Geometry and Combinatorics January –April 2011
Representation Theory Across the Channel: the UK representation theory network 2008–2011
Sheaves in Representation Theory took place in May 2010
Durham Symposium on Combinatorial and Geometric Structures in Representation Theory in Summer 2009
ICMS/INI meeting on Categorification and Geometrization from Representation Theory in Spring 2009
Maxwell Institute Colloquium on Khovanov Homology in Winter 2007
There was an ICMS conference in Edinburgh on Cherednik Algebras in Summer (!) 2007 and an instructional meeting on Cherednik Algebras in Luminy in Spring 2007.
The Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society is looking for your papers!
The homepage of the ARTIN.
Scottish Algebra Day is sleeping deeply.
The fdlist available from Bielefeld.
BMC talk on symplectic reflection algebras (getting old)

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I have a two-year postdoctoral position available, starting from June 2012. There is a proposed general area of research attached to it, the meeting point of integrable systems, algebraic geometry and combinatorics with representation theory. If you are interested in any of these topics, please consider applying, either by starting from here or emailing me if you have questions. The deadline for applying is May 4th, 2012.