MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2018-2019
Current year
Sept 5:
David Vogan
Signatures of invariant Hermitian forms on finite-dimensional representations
Sept 12:
Ting Xue (University of Melbourne)
Character sheaves for symmetric pairs
Followed by dinner.
September 19:
Ivan Losev (University of Toronto)
Goldie ranks of primitive ideals and indexes of equivariant Azumaya algebras
Followed by dinner.
September 26:
NO MEETING
Oct 3:
Yotam Hendel (Weizmann Institute)
On twisted Gelfand pairs through commutativity of a Hecke algebra
Followed by dinner.
Oct 10:
NO MEETING
Oct 17:
NO MEETING
Oct 24:
NO MEETING
Oct 31:
Kyo Nishiyama (Aoyama Gakuin University and MIT)
Generalized Steinberg maps and exotic moment maps for symmetric pairs
Followed by dinner.
Nov 7:
Jessica Fintzen (Trinity College/University of Michigan)
Representations of p-adic groups
Followed by dinner.
Nov 14:
NO MEETING
Nov 21:
David Vogan (MIT)
Local Langlands conjecture and representations of compact groups
Nov 28:
Monica Nevins (University of Ottawa)
On the unicity of types for supercuspidal representations
Followed by dinner.
Dec 5:
Dongkwan Kim (University of Minnesota)
Affine matrix-ball construction, asymptotic Hecke algebras, and the Lusztig-Vogan bijection for GL_n
Followed by dinner.
Dec 12:
David Vogan (MIT)
Local Langlands conjecture and representations of finite Chevalley groups
End of seminar for the fall semester.
Feb 6:
David Vogan (MIT)
Hodge filtrations on Harish-Chandra modules (after Schmid-Vilonen and Adams)
Feb 13:
David Vogan (MIT)
Hodge filtrations on Harish-Chandra modules (after Schmid-Vilonen and Adams) II
Feb 20:
Hiroyoshi Tamori (University of Tokyo and MIT)
Classification of minimal representations of simple real Lie groups
February 27:
SEMINAR WILL NOT MEET
because of discussion with James Simons in Wong Auditorium.
March 6:
Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
Some examples of Hodge modules arising in representation theory
March 13:
Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
Hodge modules and unipotent characters of p-adic groups
March 20:
Probably no meeting.
March 27:
SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING
April 3:
Lucas Mason-Brown(MIT)
The K-types of Unipotent Representations
April 10:
Lucas Mason-Brown(MIT)
The K-types of Unipotent Representations (continued)
April 17:
David Vogan (MIT)
A bit more about local Langlands for finite Chevalley groups
April 24:
NO MEETING: SIMONS LECTURE BY ALEXANDER BARVINOK
May 1:
NO MEETING: SIMONS LECTURE BY JUNE HUH
May 8:
Lewis Topley (University of Kent)
Minimal modules for general linear Lie algebras in characteristic p
Followed by dinner
May 15:
Peter Trapa (University of Utah
Detecting reducibility of characteristic cycles of Harish-Chandra modules
Followed by dinner
End of seminar for the spring semester.