MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2008-2009



Current year

Spring 2009: Meets on Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 in the room 2-131




NEXT MEETING:



  • Sep 24:
    • Ting Xue (MIT)
    • Nilpotent orbits in classical Lie algebras over $F^{2^n}$ and the Springer correspondence
  • Oct 08:
    • Ben Brubaker (MIT)
    • Crystal basis descriptions of p-adic Whittaker functions
  • Oct 14(Tuesday):
    • Hermann Nicolai (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    • Unification, Exceptionality, and E10
    • Followed by dinner
  • Oct 22:
    • No meeting
  • Nov 26:
    • George Lusztig (MIT)
    • Unipotent and nilpotent elements in small characterisic
  • Dec 3:
    • Ivan Cherednik (UNC)
    • Difference spherical functions
    • Followed by dinner
  • Mar 04:
    • Simon Riche (Paris VII)
    • Geometric braid group action, affine Heche algebras, and semisimple Lie algebras in positive characteristic.
    • Followed by dinner