MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 20

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Lifting of involutions in the Weyl group to the torus normalizer

Sept 27

Ivan Losev
(Northeastern)

On dimensions of irreducible representations of semisimple Lie algebras in characteristic p.

Followed by dinner.

Oct 11

No meeting

Oct 18

Henrik Schlichtkrull
(University of Copenhagen)

The infinitesimal characters of discrete series for real spherical spaces

Oct 25

David Vogan
(MIT)

Duality for Harish-Chandra modules

Nov 1

David Vogan
(MIT)

Examples of discrete series (after Krotz, Kuit, Opdam, and Schlichtkrull)

Nov 8

David Vogan
(MIT)

Examples of discrete series (after Krotz, Kuit, Opdam, and Schlichtkrull) II

Nov 15

Johannes Flake
(Rutgers)

Dirac cohomology, Hopf-Hecke algebras and infinitesimal Cherednik algebras

Nov 22

Gus Lonergan
(MIT)

Steenrod operations and the Coulomb branch

Nov 29

No meeting.

Dec 6

Fulton Gonzalez
(Tufts)

Surjectivity of Mean Value Operators on Noncompact Symmetric Spaces

Followed by dinner.

Dec 13

Ivan Cherednik
(UNC)

Jacobian factors in any ranks and DAHA

Feb 7

Job Kuit
(University of Paderborn)

H-fixed distribution vectors for the principal series of a spherical homogeneous space G/H

Feb 14

David Vogan
(MIT)

Weyl group calculations

Jeff Adams webcast about software Thursday 2/14/18, 10 a.m.

Feb 21

Ben Harris

Irreducible Characters and Semisimple Coadjoint Orbits

Followed by dinner.

Feb 28

Jeffrey Adams
(University of Maryland)

Cell representations for real groups or Carrying coals to Newcastle

Followed by dinner.

Mar 7

NO MEETING

Mar 14
CANCELED for snow; rescheduling to be determined

Peter Trapa
(University of Utah)

Examples of reducible characteristic cycles of Harish-Chandra modules

Followed by dinner.

Mar 21
AGAIN CANCELED for snow.

Consider going to faculty meeting discussion of POSSIBLE COMPUTATION REQUIREMENT
10-250, 3-4:30 Wednesday

Mar 28

SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING

Apr 4

David Vogan
(MIT)

Nilpotent orbits and Weyl group representations

Apr 11

David Vogan
(MIT)

Nilpotent orbits and Weyl group representations

Apr 18

NO MEETING:

Simons lecture by Stephen Boyd

Apr 25

NO MEETING:

Simons lecture by Sylvia Serfaty

May 2

NO MEETING:

organizer is not organized

May 9

David Vogan
(MIT)

Quantizing special orbits in Sp(2n,C) (after Barbasch-Wong)

May 16

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Sub-constructible representations of Weyl groups