# Prof. Dr. Valentin Féray

Arbeitsfelder:
Algebraische Kombinatorik
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E-Mail:
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Grit Schütze

+41 44 635 58 00
You can find more detailed information on http://user.math.uzh.ch/feray/

# Past positions:

• 2009-2013 : CNRS junior researcher in LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1
• 2006-2009 : PhD in LIGM, Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée under the direction of Philippe Biane

# Research topics:

• algebraic combinatorics, and in particular combinatorics in the symmetric group algebra and its representations (Young diagrams, factorizations in symmetric groups and associated graphs embedded in surfaces, Jucys-Murphy elements) ;
• symmetric functions, including Jack polynomials, and generalizations (in particular quasi-symmetric functions) ;
• continuous limits of discrete objects, in particular random permutations and random Young diagrams (my favorite tool in this framework is the combinatorial analysis of mixed cumulants) ;
• linear extensions, hook formulas, $P$-partition theory.