Symmetric group and $Gl_n$ characters
    Speaker: 
  
  
  
      Mike Zabrocki, York University  
Date and Time: 
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 3:15pm to 4:15pm
Location: 
Fields Institute, Stewart Library
Abstract: 
I will review the construction of the $Gl_n$ and $S_n$ characters in the tensor algebra and then present a simple to state open problem: how do we express the $S_n$ characters as a monomial symmetric function expansion in the eigenvalues of the permutation matrix?

