Confirmed Speakers: Steffen König (Köln) Armin Shalile (Oxford) Piotr Sniady ( /TUM) Friederike Stoll (Stuttgart) Shona Yu (Eindhoven) Programm: Monday 23rd November: (Room: 02.08.020) 15:00 -- 15:45: F.Stoll. Schur-Weyl duality for the mixed tensor representation I. 15:45 -- 16:15: Coffee break 16:15 -- 16:45: A.Shalile. Modular Characters for Brauer algebras. 16:45 -- 17:30: S.König. Schur-Weyl dualities, relative equivalences, and dominant dimension I. 17:35 -- 18:35: P.Sniady. Asymptotic representation theory of symmetric groups. 19:00: Dinner in Garching Tuesday 24th November: (Room: 00.12.019) 09:00 -- 10:00: Shona Yu. Cyclotomic Birman-Murakami-Wenzl (BMW) algebras and Cylindrical Tangles. 10:00 -- 10:30: Coffee Break 10:30 -- 11:15: F.Stoll. Schur-Weyl duality for the mixed tensor representation II. 11:15 -- 12:00: S.König. Schur-Weyl dualities, relative equivalences, and dominant dimension II. (Afterwards: Lunch in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building) Location: Lectures take place in the Department for Mathematics and Computer Science, Boltzmannstrasse 3, Garching. Further information: If you need accomodation please contact Elisabeth Krause (krause@ma.tum.de). Prices (when early booked) are about 70 Euros. Dinner on Monday evening will be in some restaurant in Garching. Registration: Please let Elisabeth Krause (krause@ma.tum.de) know the following information: - if you intend to come (for us to estimate the numbers to book the lecture room), - if you wish to come for dinner on Monday evening (for us to book a table in some close by restaurant).