REU Meeting - 2026-06-25

This following is a brief summary of our research meeting on 2026-06-25.

Meeting summary

This was a short meeting to just get us going. We mainly pointed out the confusing issues with characters, at least from the point of view of category theory. We then roughly established our goals for the summer. First up: learning the basics of classical character theory.

Tasks for next meeting

• Read Section 18.3 in Dummit & Foote and check out the following exercises:
  • 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13

References

Dummit & Foote, Abstract Algebra (Chapters 18 and 19)