2026/02/16 Le cours Théorie de la représentation des groupes finis d'Yvan Saint-Aubin est terminé. Merci aux participant-es!
2026/01/30 -- 02/08 I was above the Artic circle in Kilpisjärvi website
2026/01/14-16 I was giving a talk in Northeastern University.
2025/11/02--16 I am visiting Eveliina Peltola and Shinji Koshida in Aalto University.
2025/10/20 La première classe du cours Théorie de la représentation des groupes finis d'Yvan Saint-Aubin réalisé dans le cadre du réseau africain en théorie des représentations et ses applications est lancé! Vous pouvez suivre ici.
2025/09/13--10/25 I was taking part in the ICERM programme Categorification and Computation in Algebraic Combinatorics in Providence.
2025/09/01--05 I was taking part in ARTA X in Köln.
2025/07/23-25 Our workshop QTMART took place in Bonn!
2025/08/29 Mein erster Artikel auf Deutsch wurde veröffentlicht! Mia Müßig, Érika Roldán und ich stellen in unsere Publicatie von DMVM ein schönes isoperimetrisches Problem mit Polyformen vor und wahrscheinlich den ersten deutschen Beweis für die Pentomino-Zaun-Herausforderung! https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/dmvm-2025-0056/html
2025/07/23-25 Our workshop QTMART took place in Bonn!
2025/07/01-12 I was in Burkina Faso for the CIMPA School TRAP 2025, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso website of CIMPA.
2025/04/22-26 I was taking part in Hopf25 in Brussels 22-26 April and give a talk on the 24th April.
2025/04/07 My course Diagrammatic algebra in representation theory started.
2025/03/19-20 I was in Caen for their algebra day.
2025/03/03-07 I was in Marseilles to record some courses of our CIMPA school in Ouagadougou.
2025/02/08 Our article Complexity of chess domination problems with Mia Müßig and Érika Roldán has been published in Res. Math. Sci. doi:10.1007/s40687-024-00492-5!
2024/11/18 Our preprint Insights from a workshop on gamification of research in mathematics and computer science written with Élise Raphael and Érika Roldán is available arXiv:2411.10207! It is an exploration of the idea of using game to let people experience mathematical research and initiate a feedback loop to contribute to it in the best scenario. It goes over some example and present the experience of collective creation of a gamification instance that happened in Les Diablerets in October 2022 at the conference Let's talk about outreach!
2024/09, I was visiting Loïc Poulain d'Andecy in Reims under a Procope-Mobilität Scholarship from the French embassy in Germany.
2024/07/14-20 I was in York for the workshop Diagrammatic Intuition and Deep Learning in Mathematics.
2024-05-15 My application for a 1-month visit to Reims under the Procope-Mobilität grant was accepted!
2024-03-14 I helped animating an event in Geneva for Pi-day with a pentomino fence game. You can online play the video game P`entomino fence challenge developed by the team in Leipzig!
2024-01-17 I gave a talk at the Clubmath of UdeM on pair-of-pants decompositions and diagrammatic algebra (well, it was hidden but it's what it was about).
2024-01-09-11 I presented my life and animated an activity on chess and mathematics at my old high school in Québec.
2023-12-12 I gave a talk on uncoiled algebra and traces at the math-physics seminar of Aalto University.
2023-12-05 I gave a talk on uncoiled algebra and traces at the algebra seminar of Uppsala.
2023-11-10 I gave a talk on uncoiled algebra at the junior algebra seminar of Oxford.
2023-10-27 I gave a talk on chess and mathematics for the Flemish chess initiative: Schaakinitiatiev Vlaanderen.
2023-10-16--18 I was visiting the MPI-MiS in Leipzig.
2023-09-29 I moved to Bonn to begin my new position!
2023-09-08 My Master student Stijn Dezeure successfully defended his Master's thesis titled Moving towards practical quantum decoders for the classical-quantum channel. Srdan Lazendic and me were his mentors for his Master's thesis under Prof Aleksandra Pizurica.
2023-09-01 Our preprint The double dihedral Dunkl total angular momentum algebra with Marcelo De Martino and Roy Oste is finally out online arXiv:2308.16366! It extends the last part of my PhD thesis in which we focus on the representations of the TAMA for two dihedral group, using a subalgebra admitting a triangular decomposition to give out necessary condition for finite-dimensional representations.
2023-08-31 I was in Nyon until 18 September and was travelling around Switzerland for research and work.
2023-08-01 My next conference in 02-11 August 2023 will be the LMS-Bath Summer School and Symposium on Geometric and Categorical Representation theory, Bath, England Summer School website and Workshop website.
2023-06-26-30 I will be in Ghent for the Workshop Algebraic structures and special functions in theoretical physics.
2023-06-01 I will be in Japan visiting Julien Gaboriaud until June 20th.
2023-05-03 I started my position in Leipzig!
2023-04-27 My research proposal got awarded a 2-years FRQNT postdoctoral scholarship in Bonn.
2023-04-24 I successfully defended my PhD!
2023-02-27 Our preprint Uncoiled affine Temperley-Lieb algebras and their Wenzl-Jones projectors written with Alexi Morin-Duchesne is available online arXiv:2302.12782! It defines finite-dimensional quotients of the affine and periodic Temrperley-Lieb algebras and construct Wenzl-Jones idempotents for them. It is a quite colourful reading with many diagrams.
2023-02-26 I will be in Les Houches taking part in a winter school until 2023-03-04 Applications of Hecke and related algebras: Representation, Integrability and Physics.
2023-02-15 I will give a talk in the algebra seminar of the University of Glasgow. I will stay there 14 to 16 February.
2023-02-05 I accepted an offer from the Hausdorff Center in Mathematics for a Hausdorff postdoc position in Bonn! It should begin in October 2023 for 2 years.
2023-01-31 I will give a talk in the algebra seminar of the University of Manchester on Tuesday 31 January, see the event. I will also stay in Manchester for some day from 30 January to 02 February to visit Kieran Calvert.
2023-01-21 Our mini-course webpage is up! You can visit this relay page for more information, or go directly register on the website https://sites.google.com/view/kleine-seminar-mini-course/home.
2023-01-17 My PhD thesis has been submitted! The internal defence will take place on the 06 March 2023. It is bad form to plan the public defence before the end of the internal, but let's say it would be wise to keep the 24 April free would you want to attend my public defence.
2022-11-11 Our new preprint with Chris Müßig and Érika Roldán-Roa Complexity of chess domination problems is out at arXiv:2211.05651 ! It proves NP-completeness of a few problems of domination by queens and rooks on polycubes. It also boasts a companion video game and the solver we present was used to extend A075324.
2022-11-07 Ik zal een activiteit animeren voor de tentoonstelling Imaginary aan UGent. Het gaat over spelletjes, onderzoek en dames op schaaborden.
2022-10-11 I will be in Dartmouth College to give a talk at their combinatorics seminar.
2022-09-28 Je présente au Clubmath de l'UdeM sur ma récente recherche en domination et complexité algorithmique, ça promet d'être assez intéressant!
2022-09-23 to 2022-10-17 I will be in Montréal for the thematic month Integrable systems, exactly solvable models and algebras and will give a talk 2022-10-06 at a special day in honour of Yvan Saint-Aubin.
2022-09-21 Le second volet, écrit conjointement avec Charles Senécal, d'une série de problèmes de dominations sur les échiquiers est à la une d'Accromath (https://accromath.uqam.ca/2022/09/des-dames-sur-detranges-echiquiers/)! Cela porte sur les problèmes de dominations de l'échiquier par des dames, en considérant ce qui change lorsque les échiquiers sont modifiés.
2022-09-08 My first master student, Pieter-Jan Vandaele, successfully defended his Master's thesis (co-mentored with Srdan Lazendic and Alá Guzmán Adán under Prof. Aleksandra Pizurica) titled: Classical coding approaches to quantum applications, congratulations!
2022-08-22 I will be in Leipzig visiting Érika Roldán-Roa at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in sciences for a short one-week stay.
2022-07-05 We are starting the Kleine seminar again on Crystal bases! Check the website for more info.
2022-05-13 I am taking part in the PhD day of the Belgian Mathematical society and will present my Poster there.
2022-04-04 I will take part in the special month on Non-commutative algebra, representation theory and special functions in Montréal (23 May to June 10).
2022-04-02 I will present my research in 5 minutes max along with my fellow PhD students at PRIME new event Doctoraatstudenten aan het woord on 19th April in Sterre S25, come if you want to know what the UGent maths PhD students are doing!
2022-03-03 Our last preprint Generalised symmetries and bases for Dunkl monogenics is out on arXiv (arXiv:2203.01204). As one might suspect from the title, we construct bases for Dunkl monogenics for any reflection group using certain generalised symmetries of the Dunkl--Dirac operator.
2022-02-05 La première partie d'une série sur des problèmes échico-mathématiques est maintenant à lire dans la revue Accromath! (Lien) Elle porte sur le fameux problème des huit dames, sa généralisation aux plus grands échiquiers et sur quelques notions d'algorithmes qu'il a inspirées. Le second volet, écrit conjointement avec Charles Senécal, portera sur ce qui arrive lorsque la géométrie de l'échiquier change radicalement.
2022-01-17 The Kleine seminar will start back in February to finish EGNO's Tensor categories visit its website.
2021-11-01 I will animate a special evening of chess-themed problem solving on Thursday 18 for PRIME http://prime.ugent.be/activiteiten/2021-11-18 (in Dutch)
2021-10-27 Our article has been accepted in Journal of Algebra. You can find it by its DOI:10.1016/j.jalgebra.2021.09.025 or go seek the arXiv version arXiv:2106.01855. The published version has been made more concise, more details for the proofs are available in the second arXiv version or in the tex file.
2021-10-15 The Kleine seminar started back for its Fall 2021 session on Tensor categories, visit its website.
2021-06-15 The Kleine seminar finished its Winter/Spring 2021 session and will start back in September 2021 on a subject to determine.
2021-05-03 Ik ben officieel voor mijn B2-certificaat Nederlands geslaagd! I got my B2 certificat in Dutch!
2021-03-01 Je présente au SAMARI le vendredi 05 mars en ligne à l'UdeM sur la recherche graduée en algèbre et les applications aux études à l'étranger.
2021-01-19 The Kleine seminar starts again for Winter 2021, we will cover Humphreys's book on the BGG category $\mathcal{O}$ for semisimple Lie algebras. More information in the website.
2020-10-07 We put our work Finite-dimensional representations of the symmetry algebra of the dihedral Dunkl-Dirac operator on arXiv (link 2010.03381)! It goes over, as the title quite explicitly states, the representation of the symmetry algebra of a Dunkl deformation of the Dirac operator for the dihedral groups case. The symmetry algebra of the article is a subalgebra of the tensor product of a Clifford algebra and a rational Cherednik algebra generated by elements supercommuting with the realisation of the Dunkl-Dirac operator in this setting. It is dihedral because the reflection group is the product of a dihedral group and $\mathrm{Z}_2$ acting on a three-dimensional space.
2020-10-02 The Kleine seminar starts again for Fall 2020! We will continue on categorification. More information in the website.
2020-09-23 My talk for the Clubmath of the Université de Montréal on hyperbolic geometry motivated me enough to put on a popularization page
2020-06-22 I am taking part in the twin online conference of Bonn and Waterloo on Geometric representation theory. The talks look promising and they will put a recording of them online afterwards on their website.
2020-02-05 Our article The representation theory of seam algebras by Yvan and me has now been published! You can find it here: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.8.2.019
2020-01-06 The Kleine seminar of Winter 2020 will be on categorification. More information in the website.
2019-09-10. We recently put our paper The representation theory of seam algebras on arXiv (link: 19.09.03499)! If you are interested in the representation theory of diagrammatic algebras, want an example of the use of cellular algebras or simply enjoy looking at diagrams, then it is the paper for you! The work synthesizes my master's thesis on seam algebras. We study the representation theory of a deformation of the classical Temperley-Lieb algebras that stems from left- and right-multiplication by Wenzl-Jones projectors. (Update 2019-11-11: I wrote a small note aimed at non-specialists for more information.)