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Fall 2025

Anders Buch

Course Description:

This is a standard course for beginning graduate students. It covers categories, group theory, rings, fields, modules, multilinear algebra, modules over principal ideal domains, and basic representation theory. Category theory will help to organize the material into a common framework.

Textbook:

Brundan and Kleshchev

Prerequisites:

Standard course in Abstract Algebra for undergraduate students.