Eric Sommers

Professor and Associate Department Head for Curriculum

Faculty
Eric Sommers.
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LGRT 1223K

Office Hours:
On Canvas for my classes; by appointment otherwise.

Education

PhD, MIT, 1997

BS, Brown University, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Representation Theory, Algebraic Combinatorics

Selected Publications

  • Weyl group q-Kreweras numbers and cyclic sieving (with Vic Reiner), Ann. Comb. 22 (2018), no. 4, 819-874. 
  • Generic singularities of nilpotent orbit closures (with Fu, Juteau, and Levy), Advances in Mathematics 305, (2017), 1-77.
  • Exterior powers of the reflection representation in Springer theory, Transformation Groups 16 (2011), no. 3, 889-911 (volume in honor of Tonny Springer).
  • Equivalence classes of ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra, Nagoya Journal of Math (celebrating George Lusztig's 60th birthday), 183 (2006), 161-185.
  • Component groups of unipotent centralizers in good characteristic (with George McNinch), Issue celebrating the 80th birthday of Robert Steinberg, J. Algebra, 260 (2003), no. 1, 323-337.
  • Normality of nilpotent varieties in E_6, Journal of Algebra, 270 (2003), no. 1, 288-306.