MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 14

David Vogan
(MIT)

Branching laws for representations of reductive groups (after the Atlas project

Sept 21

Joel Kamnitzer

Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes

Sept 28

David Kazhdan
(Hebrew University)

Some examples of Hecke algebras for two-dimensional local fields

Followed by dinner.

Oct 5

Fokko du Cloux
(Lyon)

Computational representation theory for real reductive Lie groups I

Oct 12

Fokko du Cloux
(Lyon)

Computational representation theory for real reductive Lie groups II

Followed by dinner.

Oct 19

Annegret Paul
(Western Michigan University)

Dual Pairs and the unitary dual

Followed by dinner.

Oct 26

Dmitriy Boyarchenko
(University of Chicago)

Quantization of minimal resolutions of Kleinian singularities.

Followed by dinner.

Nov 2

David Vogan
(MIT)

Cohomological induction and irreducible representations

Nov 9

Jean-Pierre Serre
(College de France)

Principal A_1-subgroups of a semisimple group

Followed by dinner.

Nov 16

Stephen de Backer
(University of Michigan)

Distributions attached to cuspidal local systems

Followed by dinner.

Nov 23

Konstanze Rietsch
(King's College and University of Waterloo)

Mirror families for flag varieties G/P and the Peterson variety

Followed by dinner.

Nov 30

Roman Bezrukavnikov
(MIT)

Koszul duality and Kazhdan-Lusztig pattern.

Dec 7

Marc van Leeuwen
(Poitiers)

Double crystals and Knuth correspondences

Followed by dinner.

Dec 14

Elizabeth Mann
(MIT)

Real groups, Satake isomorphism and Vogan duality

Feb 8

Ben Brubaker
(Stanford University)

Building Perfect Multiple Dirichlet Series

Followed by dinner.

Feb 15

Aner Shalev
(Hebrew University)

Groups of Lie type, characters, and a Waring type theorem

Followed by dinner.

Feb 22

Eric Rains
(UC Davis)

New deformations of Coxeter groups

Followed by dinner.

Mar 1

Anatoly Vershik
(Steklov Institute)

Special representations of the group SO(n,1); representation of current groups, and infinite dimensional Lebesgue measure

Followed by dinner.

Mar 8

Gestur Olafsson
(Louisiana State University)

Holomorphic aspects of the Radon transform and harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces

Followed by dinner.

Mar 15

David Vogan
(MIT)

Characters, cohomology, and Kazhdan-Lusztig

Followed by pizza in 2-135.

Mar 22

Herve Sabourin
(Universite de Poitiers)

Unipotent representations attached to some nilpotent orbits: an explicit construction

Followed by dinner.

Mar 29

Spring Break

Apr 5

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

The cascade of orthogonal roots, the center of U(n), and minimal generalized exponents.

Apr 12

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Graded Lie algebras and intersection cohomology

Apr 19
THIS WEEK IN ROOM 2-105

Christian Lenart

Generalizing the combinatorics of Young tableaux to arbitrary Lie type.

Followed by dinner.

Joint meeting with Combinatorics Seminar.

Apr 26

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Graded Lie algebras and intersection cohomology II

May 3

No meeting

(Simons Lecture by Akshay Venkatesh)

May 10

David Vogan
(MIT)

Easy spectral gaps (after Jian-shu Li)

May 17

Dan Ciubotaru
(MIT)

Unitary representations of split p-adic groups and Hecke algebras with unequal parameters

May 24

Sergei Loktev

Weyl modules over multi-variable currents

Joint meeting of the Lie Groups and Infinite-dimensional Lie Algebra Seminars.