Dr Matt Fayers
Reader in Pure Mathematics, Deputy Head of School
Email: m.fayers@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5479Room Number: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-512Website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~mfOffice Hours: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~mf/officehours.html
Profile
I am a Reader in Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences. From 2014 to 2020 I was chair of the undergraduate exam board, and from 2018 to 2020 I was head of the Algebra and Number Theory group.
My research interests are in algebra and combinatorics, stemming mainly from the representation theory of the symmetric group in prime characteristic, and the associated combinatorics of integer partitions.
I hold an MA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. I started at QMUL in 2004, but from 2006-2008 was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at MIT, supported by a fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
Research
Research Interests:
See Matthew Fayers’ research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.
Publications
-
(2024). Decomposition numbers for abelian defect RoCK blocks of double covers of symmetric groups Journal of the London Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
-
(publicationYear). Comparing Fock spaces in types $A^{(1)}$ and $A^{(2)}$ Algebraic Combinatorics nameOfConference.
-
(publicationYear). On the irreducible spin representations of symmetric and alternating groups which remain irreducible in characteristic 3 3 Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
-
(2022). Minimal Partitions with a Given s-Core and t-Core Annals of Combinatorics nameOfConference.
-
(2022). Crystals, regularisation and the Mullineux map Journal of Combinatorial Algebra nameOfConference.
-
(publicationYear). Defect 2 2 spin blocks of symmetric groups and canonical basis coefficients Representation Theory of the American Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
-
(2020). Irreducible projective representations of the alternating group which remain irreducible in characteristic 2 Advances in Mathematics nameOfConference.
-
(2020). 2-chains: an interesting family of posets Discrete Mathematics nameOfConference.
-
(2018). Simultaneous core multipartitions European Journal of Combinatorics nameOfConference.
-
(2017). Irreducible projective representations of the symmetric group which remain irreducible in characteristic 2 Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society nameOfConference.