• I Symmetric groups and symmetric functions Representations of finite groups and semisimple algebras Finite groups and their representations Characters and constructions on representations The non-commutative Fourier transform Semisimple algebras and modules The double commutant theory Symmetric functions and the Frobenius-Schur isomorphism Conjugacy classes of the symmetric groups The five bases of the algebra of symmetric functions The structure of graded self-adjoint Hopf algebra The Frobenius-Schur isomorphism The Schur-Weyl dualityCombinatorics of partitions and tableaux Pieri rules and Murnaghan-Nakayama formula The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithmConstruction of the irreducible representations The hook-length formula II Hecke algebras and their representationsHecke algebras and the Brauer-Cartan theory Coxeter presentation of symmetric groups Representation theory of algebras Brauer-Cartan deformation theory Structure of generic and specialised Hecke algebras Polynomial construction of the q-Specht modulesCharacters and dualities for Hecke algebras Quantum groups and their Hopf algebra structure Representation theory of the quantum groupsJimbo-Schur-Weyl duality Iwahori-Hecke duality Hall-Littlewood polynomials and characters of Hecke algebras Representations of the Hecke algebras specialised at q = 0 Non-commutative symmetric functionsQuasi-symmetric functions The Hecke-Frobenius-Schur isomorphisms III Observables of partitions The Ivanov-Kerov algebra of observablesThe algebra of partial permutations Coordinates of Young diagrams and their momentsChange of basis in the algebra of observables Observables and topology of Young diagrams The Jucys-Murphy elements The Gelfand-Tsetlin subalgebra of the symmetric group algebraJucys-Murphy elements acting on the Gelfand-Tsetlin basis Observables as symmetric functions of the contents Symmetric groups and free probabilityIntroduction to free probability Free cumulants of Young diagrams Transition measures and Jucys-Murphy elementsThe algebra of admissible set partitions The Stanley-Féray formula and Kerov polynomials New observables of Young diagrams The Stanley-Féray formula for characters of symmetric groups Combinatorics of the Kerov polynomials IV Models of random Young diagrams Representations of the infinite symmetric group Harmonic analysis on the Young graph and extremal charactersThe bi-infinite symmetric group and the Olshanski semigroup Classification of the admissible representations Spherical representations and the GNS construction Asymptotics of central measuresFree quasi-symmetric functions Combinatorics of central measures Gaussian behavior of the observablesAsymptotics of Plancherel and Schur-Weyl measures The Plancherel and Schur-Weyl models

"The book will be most useful as a reference for researchers...I believe it is a valuable contribution to the literature onthe symmetric group and related algebras." ~Mark J. Wildon, Mathematical Reviews, March 2018