At last! -- the exam problems are ready and waiting for solvers!! Here they are: as JPG for viewing, PostScript for printing, and TeX source for running through TeX. Also available is the PostScript file of Okounkov--Vershik's paper (1996) which is on the list of literature. Another copy of the same can be found in my home directory on mccme.ru.

Time and place: Mondays (once in two weeks) 17:30--20:40, room 309.

Course program.

Schedule:

• February 12th.
  Lecture 1: Partitions and Young diagrams.
  Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped), PostScript (gzipped).
  Seminar: talk by S.Galkin (about a paper by M.Kontsevich).

• February 26th.
  Lecture 2: Symmetric polynomials.
  Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped), PostScript (gzipped).
  Seminar: talk by D.Hangulyan (about a paper by R.Stanley).

• March 12.
  Lecture 3: Schur functions.
  Lecture notes: TeX source (zipped), PostScript (gzipped).
  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), PostScript (gzipped).
  Seminar: talk by V.Dotsenko (about Gelfand-Zetlin bases for symmetric groups).

• April 9.
  Lecture 5: Young graph and Gelfand-Zetlin algebra.
  Lecture notes (partial): TeX source (zipped), PostScript (gzipped).