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Detailed information about our research faculty member

Mikko Korhonen

Mikko Korhonen

Research Assistant Professor
korhonen_mikko@hotmail.com

Research Interests

Group theory, Representation theory, Linear Algebraic Groups, Finite Groups

Employment and education：

2022 - Research Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

2021 - 2022 Postdoctoral fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology

2019 - 2020 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Manchester

2014 - 2018 Ph.D. (Mathematics), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2008 - 2014 B.Sc and M.Sc. (Mathematics), University of Oulu

Awards：

2018 1.5 year Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship

2022 2 year Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission grant (30万）

Publications：

    1. Representatives for unipotent classes and nilpotent orbits (with David Stewart and Adam Thomas). Communications in Algebra, 50 (2022), no. 4, 1641-1661.
    1. Systems of imprimitivity for wreath products (with Cai Heng Li). Journal of Algebra, 587 (2021), 628-637.
    1. Decomposition of exterior and symmetric squares in characteristic two. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 624 (2021), 349-363.
    1. Jordan blocks of nilpotent elements in some irreducible representations of classical groups in good characteristic. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 225 (2021), no. 8, 106694, 10 pp.
    1. A counterexample to a conjugacy conjecture of Steinberg. Transformation Groups, 25 (2020) 1209-1222.
    1. Hesselink normal forms of unipotent elements in some representations of classical groups in characteristic two. Journal of Algebra, 559 (2020) 268-319.
    1. Jordan blocks of unipotent elements in some irreducible representations of classical groups in good characteristic. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 147 (2019) 4205-4219.
    1. Unipotent elements forcing irreducibility in linear algebraic groups. Journal of Group Theory, 21 (2018) 365-396.
    1. Invariant forms on irreducible modules of simple algebraic groups. Journal of Algebra, 480 (2017) 385-422.
    1. Reductive overgroups of distinguished unipotent elements in simple algebraic groups. Ph.D. thesis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2018).