Peter McNamara

    Photo (2024, Milan)


    I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.


    Office: Room 159, Peter Hall building.
    Email:

    Representation Theory Seminar
    Pure Mathematics Seminar
    Student Seminar

    Preprints and publications

    • P. J. McNamara and A. Savage, The quantum spin Brauer category, (pdf, 22/04/25), arXiv.
    • P. J. McNamara and A. Savage, The spin Brauer category, (pdf, 30/06/24), arXiv, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 12, Paper No. e98, 50 p. (2024).
    • P. J. McNamara, On a Braid Group Action, (pdf, 28/12/23), arXiv.
    • P. J. McNamara, Cluster Monomials are Dual Canonical. (pdf, 08/12/21), arXiv.
    • M. Lanini and P. J. McNamara, Singularities of Schubert varieties within a right cell. (pdf, 19/06/21), arXiv, SIGMA 17 (2021), 070, 9pp.
    • P. J. McNamara, Non-perverse parity sheaves on the flag variety. (pdf, 26/03/22), arXiv, Nagoya Math. J. 249 (2023) 1--10.
    • P. J. McNamara and G. Williamson. Tame Torsion. In preparation.
    • P. J. McNamara, Monoidality of Kato's Reflection Functors. (pdf, 01/12/17), arXiv.
    • P. J. McNamara, Representation Theory of Geometric Extension Algebras. (pdf, 18/03/20), arXiv.
    • P. J. McNamara, Folding KLR algebras. (pdf, 04/11/18). arXiv, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 100 (2019) no 2, 447--469.
    • P. J. McNamara and P. Tingley. Face Functors for KLR Algebras. (pdf, 28/04/17). arXiv. Representation Theory 21 (2017) 106--131.
    • A. Kontorovich, P. J. McNamara and G. Williamson. Appendix to Schubert calculus and torsion explosion by G. Williamson. arXiv, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (2017), 1023--1046.
    • P. J. McNamara. Representations of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier Algebras III: Symmetric Affine Type. (pdf, 27/10/16). arXiv. Math. Z. 287 (2017), no. 1-2, 243--286.
    • J. Brundan, A. Kleshchev and P. J. McNamara, Homological Properties of Finite Type Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier Algebras. (pdf) arXiv. Duke Math. J. 163 (2014), no. 7, 1353--1404.
    • P. J. McNamara, Finite Dimensional Representations of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier Algebras I: Finite Type. (pdf). arXiv. J. Reine Angew. Math. 707 (2015), 103--124.
    • D. Bump, P. J. McNamara, and M. Nakasuji. Factorial Schur Functions and the Yang-Baxter Equation. (pdf). arXiv. Comment. Math. Univ. St. Pauli 63 (2014), no. 1-2, 23--45.
    • P. J. McNamara, The Metaplectic Casselman-Shalika Formula. (pdf), arXiv. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 368 (2016) no. 4. 2913--2937.
    • P. J. McNamara, Principal Series Representations of Metaplectic Groups Over Local Fields. (pdf), arXiv. Multiple Dirichlet Series, L-functions and Automorphic Forms, Birkhauser Progress in Math. 300 (2012) 299--327.
    • P. J. McNamara, Factorial Schur Functions via the Six Vertex Model. (pdf), arXiv.
    • P. J. McNamara, Metaplectic Whittaker Functions and Crystal Bases. (pdf), arXiv. Duke Math Journal 156 (2011), no 1, 1--31.
    • J. East and P. J. McNamara, On the Work Performed by a Transformation Semigroup. (pdf), Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 49 (2011), 95--109.
    • P. J. McNamara, Factorial Grothendieck Polynomials, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 13 (2006), R71. (pdf). arXiv. An addendum.

    Other (Mathematical) Writing

    • Comments on my papers. (last updated 24/04/25)
    • Algebra notes Written while teaching 3rd year algebra at Melbourne.
    • SMMC 2017 A4 (this is a solution, for the question, click here)
    • P. J. McNamara, Three regimes for torsion in Schubert and quiver varieties, Oberwolfach Reports, 2015.
    • IMO 2014 Q4 (with sage)
    • DECRA Application. My (successful) application written for funding commencing in 2015.
    • Notes on R-matrices for Quiver Hecke algebras (Quiver Hecke algebras are KLR algebras).
    • Notes on the Baily-Borel compactification for the Mordell seminar.
    • My PhD thesis and honours thesis are available upon request, but readers should note that both theses essentially appear in the papers above.
    • Constructing Binary Codes. A decent (but not optimally known) construction of binary codes.

    Videos

    • Hilbert Schemes Appendix (Preprojective Algebras), Informal Friday Seminar, University of Sydney, 04/11/20. (youtube)
    • Geometric Extension Algebras, HIM, 26/11/2017. (youtube), (webm, 178.4MB)
    • Understanding the Chinta-Gunnels action, ICERM, 17/04/2013.

    Teaching

    Second Semester 2024: MAST10005 Calculus 1 and MAST90068 Groups, Categories and Homological Algebra.
    First Semester 2023: MAST20032 Vector Calculus (Advanced) and MAST30005 Algebra.
    First Semester 2022: MAST20032 Vector Calculus (Advanced) and MAST30005 Algebra.
    First Semester 2021: MAST10005 Calculus 1 and MAST20009 Vector Calculus.
    Second Semester 2020: MAST20009 Vector Calculus and MAST30024 Geometry.
    Second Semester 2019: MAST30024 Geometry.
    First Semester 2019: MAST10005 Calculus 1.
    First Semester 2018: MATH2400 Mathematical Analysis.
    First Semester 2017: MATH1061 Discrete Mathematics.
    First Semester 2016: Algebraic Geometry Reading Course (Honours).
    2014: PM4 Representation Theory.
    Spring 2013: Math 110: Applied Number Theory and Field Theory and Math 116: Complex Analysis
    Spring 2012: Math 110: Applied Number Theory and Field Theory and Math 120: Modern Algebra
    Winter/Spring 2011, Winter/Autumn 2012: Math 51: Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables
    Summer 2007: 18.06 Linear Algebra
    2003-2006: Olympiad notes and handouts

    Miscellaneous

    My Blag
    Me on MathOverflow.
    Some practical links.
    A keyboard layout (partially) optimised for LaTeX.
    Not the Peter McNamara you were looking for?

    Postal Address:
    Peter McNamara
    School of Mathematics and Statistics
    The University of Melbourne
    Parkville, VIC, 3010
    Australia
    Telephone:
    +61-3-9035-5181.

    [Blog | Diplomacy | Maths]