MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 10

Alexander Braverman
(MIT)

Kazhdan-Laumon representations.

Sept 17

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Representations of Lie algebras in characteristic p.

Oct 1

Mark Reeder
(Boston College)

Wedge g, small modules, and the Springer correspondence.

Oct 8

Monica Nevins
(MIT)

The orbit method: forays in p-adic groups.

Oct 15

Peter Trapa
(MIT)

Unitary representations of U(p,q).

Oct 22

David Vogan
(MIT)

Dirac operator and unitary representations.

Oct 29

Konni Rietsch
(MIT)

Total positivity for flag varieties.

Nov 5

David Vogan
(MIT)

Dirac operator and unitary representations (continued).

Nov 12

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Discrete series representations and the 2^l abelian ideals in b.

Nov 19

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Discrete series representations and the 2^l abelian ideals in b.

Nov 26

David Vogan
(MIT)

Dirac operator and unitary representations (concluded).

Dec 3

Ivan Cherednik
(University of North Carolina)

Difference spherical functions.

Dec 10

Robert Donley
(MIT)

Intertwining operators and the discrete series.

Feb 4

Jing-Song Huang
(HKUST and MIT)

Small nilpotent orbits and unitary representations.

Feb 11

Edward Dunne
(AMS)

A Penrose-type transform for odd-dimensional hyperbolic space.

Feb 18

Alexander Braverman
(MIT)

'Schwartz' functions on the basic affine space, Eisenstein series and generic Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.

Feb 25

Dennis Gaitsgory
(Harvard)

Geometric Eisenstein series.

Mar 4

David Vogan
(MIT)

K-types, signatures, and modules on the nilpotent cone.

Mar 11

David Vogan
(MIT)

K-types, signatures, and modules on the nilpotent cone (conclusion).

Mar 18

Markus Hunziker
(Brandeis)

Harish-Chandra systems and invariant differential operators on a reductive Lie algebra.

Apr 1

Fiona Murnaghan
(University of Toronto)

Characters of admissible representations of p-adic groups.

Apr 8

Siddhartha Sahi
(Rutgers University)

A new formula for weight multiplicities and characters.

Apr 15

David Vogan
(MIT)

Norm estimates for unitary highest weight representations (after B. Krotz).

Apr 22

Don King
(Northeastern University)

The moment mapping on spherical nilpotent orbits.

Apr 29

Sam Evens
(University of Arizona)

Poisson geometry and a theorem of Kostant.

May 6

Zoltan Magyar
(Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

How to decide that a real Lie group is 'reductive'.

May 13

Gregg Zuckerman
(Yale University and Harvard)

Duality for induction.