MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 5

Gerrit Heckman
(University of Nijmegen)

Hypergeometric covers of linear arrangements.

Sept 10

Yuval Roichman
(Bar Ilan University)

A unified construction of Coxeter Group Representations.

(This seminar is a joint meeting with the combinatorics seminar and will meet at 4:15 in 2-338.)

Followed by dinner.

Sept 17

Alexander Postnikov
(MIT)

Affine Weyl groups in K--theory and representation theory.

Sept 24

Akshay Venkatesh
(MIT)

Microlocal lifts for locally symmetric spaces. (Joint with L. Silberman.)

Oct 1

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Geometric quantization as classical Poisson bracket in two dimensions higher, and the emergence of exceptional Lie groups from classical coadjoint orbits. (Joint with Ranee Brylinski.)

Oct 8

Vasiliy Dolgushev
(MIT)

Equivariant Formality Theorem.

Oct 15

Pavel Etingof
(MIT)

Matrix valued Macdonald functions.

Oct 22

Nolan Wallach
(UCSD)

Holomorphic continuation of generalized Jacquet integrals.

Followed by dinner.

Oct 29

No meeting

Serre's lecture in the Number Theory seminar at Harvard.

Nov 5-12

David Vogan
(MIT)

Delorme's proof of Arthur's Paley-Wiener theorem.

Nov 19

Tsachik Gelander
(Yale)

Homotopy type and volume of locally symmetric manifolds.

Followed by dinner.

Nov 26

Eric Rains
(UC Davis)

Vanishing integrals and symmetric spaces.

Followed by dinner.

Dec 10

George Lusztig
(MIT)

A q-analogue of an identity of Wallach.

Dec 17

David Kazhdan
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Endoscopic decomposition of nilpotent distributions.

Followed by dinner.

Feb 4

Adam Koranyi
(CUNY)

Liouville-type theorems in parabolic geometry.

Followed by dinner.

Feb 11

Maxim Vybnorov
(MIT)

A quiver for the BGG category $\cal O$: recent developments and a combinatorial challenge.

(This seminar is a joint meeting with the combinatorics seminar and will meet at 4:15 in 2-338.)

Feb 18

Alexander Braverman
(Brown)

Instanton counting via affine Lie algebras.

(Partially joint with Finkelberg-Gaitsgory and Pavel Etingof.)

Followed by dinner.

Mar 3

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Orthogonal polynomials, Gelfand-Zetlin bases, and the Gelfand-Kirillov conjecture.

(Joint with Nolan Wallach.)

Mar 10

Ivan Cherednik
(University of North Carolina)

Diagonal coinvariants and double affine Hecke algebra.

Followed by dinner.

Mar 17

Paul Bressler
(University of Arizona)

Courant algebroids.

Followed by dinner.

Mar 24

No meeting

Mar 31

Jeff Adams
(University of Maryland)

Nonlinear covers of real groups.

Followed by dinner.

Apr 7

No meeting

Apr 14

Tara Holm
(UC Berkeley)

Equivariant cohomology of the based loop group.

Followed by dinner.

Apr 21

Alexander Elashvili
(Georgian Academy of Sciences)

About the index of Lie algebras.

Followed by dinner.

Apr 28

No meeting

Stanley's lecture in the combinatorics seminar.

May 5

David Vogan
(MIT)

Generic unitary representations of classical groups over local fields (after Lapid, Muic, and Tadic).

May 12

Michel Duflo
(Paris VII)

On restriction of discrete series to subgroups of reductive groups.

(Joint with Jorge Vargas.)

Followed by dinner.

May 19

Catharina Stroppel
(Aarhus)

Functorial knot invariants in representation theory.

Followed by dinner.