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Spring 2021 ANT Zoominar
Fridays @ 3pm California Time 
Meeting ID: 9045829721 --- password: seminar
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Professor Beren Sanders

Schedule (click dates for title and abstract) 

4/16 @ 10am Serge Bouc University of Picardie
4/23 Alicia Lamarche University of Utah
4/30 Joe Kramer-Miller UC Irvine
5/7
5/14
5/21
5/28
6/4


Friday, April 16, 2021 @ 10am PST

Serge Bouc, University of Picardie

A functorial resolution of units of Burnside rings

Most of the structural properties - prime spectrum, species,  idempotents, ... - of the Burnside ring of a finite group have been precisely described a few years after its introduction in 1967. An important missing item in this list is its group of units. After a - non exhaustive - review of this subject, I will present some recent results on the functorial aspects of this group.