Meinolf Geck
Universität Stuttgart
Fachbereich Mathematik
IAZ - Lehrstuhl für Algebra
Pfaffenwaldring 57
D-70569 Stuttgart

Tel.: +49 (0) 711 68565367;    Büro: 8.350;    email: meinolf.geck(at)mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de

Prodekan Fachbereich Mathematik (seit dem 1.10.2016)

Lehre/Teaching:

• WiS 18/19: Vorbesprechungen Seminare Algebra 1 und 2: Do 19.7., 13 Uhr, 8.143 und Fr 20.7., 13 Uhr 8.333.
• SoS 18: Algebra.
• WiS 17/18: Algebra und Zahlentheorie für das Lehramt.
• SoS 17: Lie algebras and Chevalley groups.
• WiS 16/17: Computer-Praktikum, Seminar zur Algebra.
• Archive (2016 and older).

My PhD students (with links to their theses)

   Mitglied/PI im SFB-TRR 195 "Symbolische Werkzeuge in der Mathematik und ihre Anwendung".
   Anglo-Franco-German Representation Theory network.

   Editor: Science China Mathematics, Archiv der Mathematik, Carpathian Journal of Mathematics

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Some recent papers (for the full list of publications, click here):

• On the values of unipotent characters in bad characteristic; 20 pages, preprint at arXiv:1711.05778
• James' Submodule Theorem and the Steinberg Module, arXiv:1708.07782
• A first guide to the character theory of finite groups of Lie type; 35 pages, preprint at arXiv:1705.05083
• Invariant bilinear forms on W-graph representations and linear algebra over integral domains (with J. Müller); 41 pages, preprint at arXiv:1701.02331
• Minuscule weights and Chevalley groups, Contemp. Math., 694 (2017), 159-175.
• On the construction of semisimple Lie algebras and Chevalley groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 3233--3247

Publications related to teaching:

• On the characterization of Galois extensions, Amer. Math. Monthly 121 (August/September 2014), 637-639
• Algebra: Gruppen, Ringe, Körper - Mit einer Einführung in die Darstellungstheorie endlicher Gruppen. Edition Delkhofen, 2014. vi+150pp., EAN 978-3936413-15-1.
• Eigenvalues of real symmetric matrices, Amer. Math. Monthly 122 (May 2015), 482-483

Software: The CHEVIE project and PyCox - A Python version of CHEVIE-GAP for working with (finite) Coxeter groups. Latest version: 1.6180 (just download the file and import it into Python or sage). All comments welcome! (See also my paper at LMS J. Comput. Math. 15).

Slides from some talks: Kolloquium Tübingen (July 2017); In memoriam Fokko du Cloux (September 2007); Michel Broué's birthday (October 2006).

Links (Conferences, workshops, ...):

• Representation Theory, 6 January to 3 April 2020, Paris, France.
• Groups, representations and applications, 6 January to 30 June 2020, Cambridge, UK.
• Darstellungstheorietage 2018, 13.-15. September 2018, Hannover.
• Annual meeting SFB TRR 195, 24-28 Sep 2018, Tübingen.
• Computational Lie theory, 5-6 July 2018, Stuttgart.
• Arithmetic and algebraic geometry (in honor of Ofer Gabber), 11-15 Juin 2018, IHES, France.
• Introductory Workshop: Group Representation Theory and Applications, MSRI, 5-9 Feb 2018, Berkeley, USA.
• Darstellungstheorietage 2017, Eichstätt, 10.-11. November 2017.
• First annual meeting of SFB-TRR195, RWTH Aachen, 25-28 September 2017.
• Current topics in the theory of algebraic groups, Dijon, 3-7 July 2017.
• Computeralgebra-Tagung 2017, Kassel, 4-6 Mai 2017.
• Finite Simple Groups and Their Representations, Tucson, Arizona, 25-26 March 2017.
• Darstellungstheorietage 2016, Wuppertal, 27.-28. Januar 2017.
• Archive (2016 and older).

Recent articles in arXiv:math.RT

Short CV:

• 1983-1988 Studies of Mathematics, RWTH Aachen.
• 1988-1989 Postgraduate visiting student, University of Warwick, England.
• 1990 Ph.D., RWTH Aachen.
• 1991 Bennigsen-Foerder Prize (jointly with K. Lux).
• 1994 Habilitation, RWTH Aachen.
• 1995-1999 Chercheur CNRS, Université Paris 7, France.
• 1999-2005 Professor, Université Lyon 1, France.
• 2005-2012 6th Century Professor, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
• 2012-? Lehrstuhl für Algebra, Universität Stuttgart.