Speaker: Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly, Carleton University Time: Tuesday March 2nd, 11:00-12:00 Place: room HP 4351, Herzberg Building, Carleton University Title: "Partitions and Constituents of the Irreducible Characters of Symmetric Groups" Abstract: Since the number of irreducible characters of a group is equal to the number of conjugacy classes, which in the case of the symmetric group $S_n$ is the number of partitions of $n$. Therefore we can label irreducible characters of $S_n$ by partitions of $n$. Then using branching rule and branching graph we discribe the constituents of the restriction of these characters on $S_m$ for $m