news

Feb 06, 2026	Great news! Our paper “The center of the asymptotic Hecke category and unipotent character sheaves” (joint work with Ulrich Thiel) has been accepted for publication in Representation Theory.
Jan 12, 2026	Speaking at the Mini-conference: Categorification at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Thank you to Vanesa Miemitz for the invitation!
Dec 02, 2025	Speaking in the Topology Seminar at the University of Zurich. Thanks to Luke Conners for the invitation!
Nov 07, 2025	Successfully defended my PhD “Asymptotic Hecke Categories” at RPTU Kaiserslautern–Landau! More details here.

selected publications

Idempotents, traces, and dimensions in Hecke categories

Ben Elias, Liam Rogel, and Daniel Tubbenhauer

2025

Bib

@misc{elias2025idempotentstracesdimensionshecke,
  title = {Idempotents, traces, and dimensions in Hecke categories},
  author = {Elias, Ben and Rogel, Liam and Tubbenhauer, Daniel},
  year = {2025},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {math.RT},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10061},
}

The center of the asymptotic Hecke category and unipotent character sheaves

Liam Rogel and Ulrich Thiel

2026

Accepted in Representation Theory

Bib

@misc{rogel2026centerasymptoticheckecategory,
  title = {The center of the asymptotic Hecke category and unipotent character sheaves},
  author = {Rogel, Liam and Thiel, Ulrich},
  year = {2026},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {math.RT},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07276},
  journal = {Representation Theory},
  note = {Accepted in Representation Theory},
}