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

Lehre/Teaching:

• SoS 20: Lie algebras and Chevalley groups; Computer-Praktikum.
• WiS 19/20: GAGA B; Proseminar zur Linearen Algebra.
• SoS 19: Lineare Algebra und Analytische Geometrie II; Seminar zur Algebra (Proseminar Lineare Algebra Frau Iancu).
• WiS 18/19: Lineare Algebra und Analytische Geometrie I; Seminar zur Algebra.
• Archive (2018 and older).

BSc/MSc-Arbeiten: Themen werden individuell vereinbart; wer insbesondere Interesse an Projekten mit Programmieren in GAP oder OSCAR hat, bitte melden!

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):

• Computing Green functions in small characteristic, J. Algebra, to appear, preprint at arXiv:1904.06970.
• Green functions and Glauberman degree-divisibility, 16 pages, preprint at arXiv:1904.04586
• Generalised Gelfand--Graev representations in bad characteristic?, Transform. Groups, to appear; preprint at arXiv:1810.08937
• On the values of unipotent characters in bad characteristic; in Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 141 (2019), 37--63
• A first guide to the character theory of finite groups of Lie type; 35 pages; chapter in Local Representation Theory and Simple Groups (2018)
• On the construction of semisimple Lie algebras and Chevalley groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 145 (2017), 3233--3247

Publications related to teaching:

• On Jacob's construction of the rational canonical form of a matrix, Electron. J. Linear Algebra 36 (2020), 177-182.
• Eigenvalues and polynomial equations, Amer. Math. Monthly, 126 (November 2019), 933--935.
• Eigenvalues of real symmetric matrices, Amer. Math. Monthly 122 (May 2015), 482-483
• Algebra: Gruppen, Ringe, Körper - Mit einer Einführung in die Darstellungstheorie endlicher Gruppen. Edition Delkhofen, 2014. vi+150pp., EAN 978-3936413-15-1.
• On the characterization of Galois extensions, Amer. Math. Monthly 121 (August/September 2014), 637-639; siehe auch FreedomMathDance.

Software (all comments welcome, bug reports, suggestions for improvements etc!):

• The CHEVIE project; see also Jean Michel's gap3-jm and Gapjm.jl.
• PyCox - A Python version of CHEVIE-GAP; in particular, it can compute Kazhdan-Lusztig cells, even for type E_8; latest version: 1.6180 (See also my paper at LMS J. Comput. Math. 15).
• A GAP program for computing the Frobenius normal form (version 9.2.2019) of a matrix (even large ones over a finite field).
• ChevLie - A Julia package for constructing Lie algebras and Chevalley groups; version 1.1 (January 2020).

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, Thematic trimester program, 6 January to 3 April 2020, IHP, Paris, France.
• Groups, representations and applications, 6 January to 30 June 2020, Cambridge, UK.
• Representation theory of algebraic groups and quantum groups (Ariki's 60th birthday), 21 - 25 Oct 2019, RIMS, Kyoto.
• Mini-Symposium Computer-Algebra, DMV-Jahrestagung, Karlsruhe, 23 - 26 Sept 2019.
• 3rd Annual Meeting SFB-TRR 195, Saarbrücken, 9 - 13 Sep 2019.
• SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 9 - 13 July 2019, Bern, Switzerland.
• Representations of finite groups, 24 Mar - 30 Mar 2019, MFO, Oberwolfach.
• Characters and decomposition numbers of finite reductive groups, 4-6 March 2019, RWTH Aachen.
• Algebraic groups, Lie algebras and their representations (Jantzen 70th birthday), 22-24 Nov 2018, MPIM, Bonn.
• Darstellungstheorietage 2018, 13.-15. September 2018, Hannover.
• Annual meeting SFB TRR 195, 24-28 Sep 2018, Tübingen.
• Algebraic representation theory (in honour of Richard Dipper), 23-25 June 2018, Stuttgart.
• 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.