MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2009-2010
Current year
Fall 2009: Meets on Wednesdays 4:30-5:30, Room 2-143
Spring 2010: Meets on
Mondays
4:30-5:30, Room 2-135
NEXT MEETING:
May 10:
George Lusztig
From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes. II
Sep 16:
NO MEETING
Sep 23:
Carl Mautner, UT Austin
A Geometric Proof of a Modular Schur-Weyl Theorem
Followed by dinner.
Sep 30:
Maria Gorelik, Weizmann Institute
Shapovalov maps for Lie algebras with a `nice' triangular decomposition.
Oct 7:
George Lusztig (MIT)
Cyclic quivers and antiorbital complexes
Oct 14:
David Vogan (MIT)
Representations of Hecke algebras and Hermitian forms
Oct 21:
Eric Opdam (University of Leiden)
Hecke algebras and the tempered L-function conjecture
Followed by dinner.
Oct 28:
No meeting.
Nov 4:
Wilfried Schmid (Harvard University)
Hodge structures and unitary representations
Nov 11:
David Vogan (MIT)
Computing Hodge and weight filtrations of Harish-Chandra modules
Nov 18: No meeting
Nov 25: No meeting
Dec 2:
Peter McNamara (MIT)
Representations of metaplectic groups and their Whittaker functions
Dec 9:
George Lusztig (MIT)
Conjugacy classes in the Weyl group and unipotent elements
Feb 8:
Tasho Kaletha (University of Chicago)
Depth-zero local Langlands correspondence and endoscopic transfer
Followed by dinner.
Feb 15:
Presidents Day Holiday
Feb 22:
Xinwen Zhu (Harvard)
Every flat bundle on the punctured disc has an oper structure
Followed by dinner.
March 1:
Nigel Higson (Penn State)
The Baum-Connes Conjecture and Group Representations
Followed by dinner.
March 8:
David Vogan(MIT)
Coxeter groups and regular polyhedra
March 15:
Alessandra Pantano (UC Irvine)
On the unitary dual of classical and exceptional real split groups
Followed by dinner.
Slides from talk
March 22:
SPRING BREAK
March 29:
Ivan Losev (MIT)
Quantization of nilpotent orbits vs. W-algebras
April 5:
Bert Kostant (MIT)
Experimental evidence for the occurrence of E_8 in nature and the radii of the Gossett circles.
April 12:
David Vogan
Contragredient representations and Langlands parameters (after Jeff Adams)
April 19:
Patriots Day Holiday
April 26:
George Lusztig
From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes
May 3:
NO MEETING
Simons Lecture by Andrei Okounkov
Room 3-270
May 10:
George Lusztig
From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes. II.