MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 13

David Vogan
(MIT)

How many jellybeans are in that jar?

Sept 20

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Sheaves on G/P

Sept 27

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

On a theorem of Harm Derksen and further progress on the determination of U(g)^K.

Oct 4

David Vogan
(MIT)

How many jellybeans are in that jar? (continued)

Oct 11

No seminar

The combinatorics seminar might be of interest

Oct 18

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Intertwining operators over finite fields

Oct 25

Alexander Braverman
(Brown University)

Pursuing the double affine Grassmannian

Followed by dinner.

Nov 1

Catharina Stroppel
(University of Glasgow)

From KL cells to the rough structure of generalized Verma modules via categorification.

Followed by dinner.

Nov 8

Ju-Lee Kim
(MIT and UIC)

Classification of smooth representations of p-adic groups

Nov 15

Ben Brubaker
(MIT)

On Some Applications of Lie Group Representations to Number Theory

Nov 22

Possible observance of Thanksgiving holiday

Nov 29

No speaker as of now

Dec 6

Roman Bezrukavnikov
(MIT)

Tensor categories and character sheaves (after Finkelberg and Ostrik)

Dec 13

JuLee Kim
(MIT)

Supercuspidal representations I

Dec 20

JuLee Kim
(MIT)

Supercuspidal representations II

Feb 7

Sergei Loktev

Towards double-affine Schubert cells

Followed by dinner.

Feb 14

Pavel Etingof
(MIT)

Equivariant D-modules on the nil cone and representations of the rational Cherednik algebra in type A.

Feb 21

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

On maximal Poisson commutative subalgebras of S(g) and corresponding Darboux coordinates on any reductive Lie algebra g

Feb 28

Ivan Losev
(Moscow State University and Rutgers University)

A uniqueness property for smooth affine spherical varieties.

Followed by dinner.

Mar 7

Sug Woo Shin
(Harvard)

Representations in the cohomology of Rapoport-Zink spaces.

Mar 14

Ivan Cherednik
(UNC Chapel Hill)

Toward Harmonic Analysis on DAHA I.

Followed by dinner.

Mar 21

Dan Barbasch
(Cornell)

The unitary spherical dual of quasisplit groups and primitive ideals

Followed by dinner.

Mar 28, Apr 4

NO MEETINGS

Apr 11

R. Parthasarathy
(Tata Institute)

On quantum analogues of coherent families of modules at roots of 1

Followed by dinner.

Apr 18

David Vogan
(MIT)

Arthur's conjectures for E₈: getting real mathematics out of a press release.

Apr 25
Talk begins at 5pm

David Nadler
(Northwestern)

Topic TBA

Followed by dinner.

May 2

Tom Haines
(Maryland)

Dimensions of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties

Followed by dinner.

May 9

David Vogan
(MIT)

Fun with Cells in E₇ and E₈

May 16

Dan Ciubotaru
(MIT)

Generic unipotent modules