MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 4

Sheldon Chang
(MIT)

Loop group actions and fixed point formulas.

Sept 11

David Vogan
(MIT)

Convex cones and classification theorems. Part 1 of 2.

Sept 18

David Vogan
(MIT)

Convex cones and classification theorems. Part 2 of 2.

Sept 25

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Periodic W-graphs. Part 1 of 2.

Oct 2

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Periodic W-graphs. Part 2 of 2.

Oct 16

Tohru Uzawa
(Tohoku University and MIT)

Compactifications of complete conics over Z.

Oct 23

Tohru Uzawa
(Tohoku University and MIT)

Compactifications of complete conics over Z (continued).

Oct 30

David Vogan
(MIT)

Residues and regular functions on nilpotent $K_{\Bbb C}$ orbits.

Nov 6

Jyoti Sengupta
(MIT and Tata Institute)

Spectral analysis on rank one symmetric spaces.

Nov 13

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Clifford algebra analogue of the Hopf-Koszul-Samelson theorem, the rho-decomposition, C(g) = End V_rho tensor C(p), and the g-module structure of wedge g.

Nov 20

Pavle Pandzic
(MIT)

Zuckerman functors for non-reductive groups and Bernstein-Lunts equivalence.

Nov 27

Tohru Uzawa
(Tohoku University and MIT)

Real moment map.

Dec 4

John Stalker
(MIT)

Jacobi and the root lattice of F_4.

Dec 11

David Renard
(MIT)

Transfer of orbital integrals between SO(n+1,n) and Mp(2n,R) and genuine representations of the metaplectic group.

Feb 12

David Vogan
(MIT)

Discrete decomposability of restrictions (after T. Kobayashi).

Feb 19

Eric Sommers
(MIT)

A family of affine Weyl group representations.

Feb 26

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Constructible functions on the Steinberg variety

Mar 6

Special lecture by Allan Adler

Invariants of SL(2,q) acting on C^n, 2n\pm 1 =q.

Mar 12

Dale Peterson
(UBC and MIT)

Quantum cohomology of G/P.

Mar 19

Dale Peterson
(UBC and MIT)

Quantum cohomology of G/P (continued).

Apr 9

David Vogan
(MIT)

Simple root systems and their automorphisms.

Apr 16

Paul Sally
(Chicago)

Supercuspidal characters.

Apr 23

Allen Knutson
(Brandeis)

Some geometry behind Littelmann's Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths.

Apr 30

Dipendra Prasad
(Harvard and Mehta Research Institute)

Theta correspondence for unitary groups.

May 7

David Renard
(MIT)

Twisted orbital integrals for real reductive groups.

May 14

Joerg Winkelmann
(Harvard)

Complex parallelizable manifolds.

May 21

Susana Salamanca-Riba
(New Mexico State University)

Unitary representations with strongly regular infinitesimal character.