MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2011-2012



Current year



  • Sep 14:
    • Avraham Aizenbud (MIT)
    • Derivatives for representations of GL(n,R) and GL(n,C)
  • Oct 19:
    • Michele Vergne (Jussieu)
    • Box splines and branching rules
    • Followed by dinner.
  • Nov 9:
    • NO MEETING
  • Nov 30:
    • No meeting
  • Dec 14:
    • George Lusztig (MIT)
    • A bar operator for involutions in a Coxeter group
    • End of seminar for the fall semester.



  • Feb 22:
    • Eric Sommers (UMass Amherst)
    • On a duality for nilpotent orbits arising from two maps.
    • Followed by dinner
  • March 21:
  • March 28:
    • SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING
  • April 4:
    • Anthony Licata (Stanford/IAS/Australian National University)
    • Categorification of the basic representation.
    • FOLLOWED BY DINNER
  • April 25:
    • Alexander Braverman (Brown University)
    • Computing the Tamagawa number for affine Kac-Moody groups
  • May 2:
    • Alex Lubotzky gives Simons lecture: no meeting.