February 12th.
Lecture 1: Partitions and Young diagrams.
Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped),
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Seminar: talk by S.Galkin (about a paper by M.Kontsevich).
February 26th.
Lecture 2: Symmetric polynomials.
Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped),
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Seminar: talk by D.Hangulyan (about a paper by R.Stanley).
March 12.
Lecture 3: Schur functions.
Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped),
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Seminar: talk by V.Kleptsyn (after a paper by D.Zeilberger et al.).
March 26.
Lecture 4: Representations of the symmetric group.
Lecture notes (partial): TeX source (zipped),
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Seminar: talk by V.Dotsenko (about Gelfand-Zetlin bases for symmetric
groups).