This text, drawn from the author's lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, is intended as a textbook for a one-term course in basic ring theory. The material covered includes the Wedderburn-Artin theory of semi-simple rings, Jacobson's theory of the radical representation theory of groups and algebras, prime and semi-prime rings, primitive and semi-primitive rings, division rings, ordered rings, local and semi-local rings, and perfect and semi-perfect rings. By aiming the level of writing at the novice rather than at the expert, and by stressing the role of examples and motivation, the author has produced a text which is suitable not only for use in a graduate course, but also for self-study by other interested graduate students. Numerous exercises are also included. This graduate textbook on rings, fields and algebras is intended for graduate students in mathematics.

A first course in noncommutative rings, by T. Y. Lam. Pp. 385. £37 (pb), £62.50 (hb). 2001. ISBN 0 387 95325 6 (pb), 0 387 95183 0 (hb) (Springer-Verlag).

This paper introduces five notions, including π-algebras, π-ideals, Hopf π-algebras, π-modules and Hopf π-modules, verifies the fundamental isomorphism theorem of π-algebras and studies some algebraic properties of Hopf π-algebras as well.

Hopf π- Algebras

Groupes et algébres de lie

Let G be an inner form of a general linear group over a non-archimedean local field. We prove that the local Langlands correspondence for G preserves depths. We also show that the local Langlands correspondence for inner forms of special linear groups preserves the depths of essentially tame Langlands parameters.

Progress in Mathematics

Commutative ring theory: Regular rings

We define a generalized Springer correspondence for the group GL(n) over any field. We also determine the cuspidal pairs, and compute the correspondence explicitly. Finally we define a stratification of the category of equivariant perverse sheaves on the nilpotent cone of GL(n) satisfying the `recollement' properties, and with subquotients equivalent to categories of representations of a product of symmetric groups.

Modular generalized Springer correspondence I: the general linear group

In this survey paper, we present the broad outlines of the proof of a character formula for tilting representations of reductive algebraic groups in positive characteristic, obtained partly in collaboration with several other authors. A unifying theme for a number of steps of this proof is the notion of "formal Koszul duality." We explain this notion and discuss some applications. 
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Dans cet article nous presentons les grandes lignes de la preuve d'une formule de caracteres pour les representations basculantes des groupes algebriques reductifs sur un corps de caracteristique positive, obtenue partiellement en collaboration avec plusieurs auteurs. Nous unissons les differentes etapes de cette preuve dans la notion de "dualite de Koszul formelle", et en presentons quelques applications.

Dualit\'e de Koszul formelle et th\'eorie des repr\'esentations des groupes alg\'ebriques r\'eductifs en caract\'eristique positive

In this paper we prove a character formula expressing the classes of simple representations in the principal block of a simply-connected semisimple algebraic group G in terms of baby Verma modules, under the assumption that the characteristic of the base field is bigger than 2h-1, where h is the Coxeter number of G. This provides a replacement for Lusztig's conjecture, valid under a reasonable assumption on the characteristic.

A simple character formula

In this paper we prove, for G a connected reductive algebraic group satisfying a technical assumption, that the Satake category of G (with coefficients in a finite field, a finite extension of Q_l, or the ring of integers of such a field) can be described via Iwahori-Whittaker perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian. As an application, we confirm a conjecture of Juteau-Mautner-Williamson describing the tilting objects in the Satake category.

An Iwahori-Whittaker model for the Satake category

We study three fundamental topics in the representation theory of disconnected algebraic groups whose identity component is reductive: (i) the classification of irreducible representations; (ii) the existence and properties of Weyl and dual Weyl modules; and (iii) the decomposition map relating representations in characteristic $0$ and those in characteristic $p$ (for groups defined over discrete valuation rings). For each of these topics, we obtain natural generalizations of the well-known results for connected reductive groups.

Simon Riche

Papers

Modular generalized Springer correspondence I: the general linear group

Dualit\'e de Koszul formelle et th\'eorie des repr\'esentations des groupes alg\'ebriques r\'eductifs en caract\'eristique positive

A simple character formula

An Iwahori-Whittaker model for the Satake category

Representation theory of disconnected reductive groups.