Algebra

The algebra department has a history of more than half a century. In the early days, an influential member of the department was László Rédei, one of the founders of research in abstract algebra in Hungary. The list of areas studied in the past decades includes semigroup theory, universal algebra, lattice theory, radical theory, and category theory.

Our present research is dominated by group theory and ring theory. We have ongoing projects in asymptotic group theory, on subgroup growth, the Jordan property of diffeomorphism groups, on the number of conjugacy classes, the base size of permutation groups, on modules over Leavitt path algebras, on questions in invariant theory, and on applications of representation theory of classical groups.

Our weekly seminar has been running since the 1970s and meets on Monday mornings.