MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 16

NO MEETING

Sept 23

Carl Mautner
(UT Austin)

A Geometric Proof of a Modular Schur-Weyl Theorem

Followed by dinner.

Sept 30

Maria Gorelik
(Weizmann Institute)

Shapovalov maps for Lie algebras with a `nice' triangular decomposition.

Oct 7

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Cyclic quivers and antiorbital complexes

Oct 14

David Vogan
(MIT)

Representations of Hecke algebras and Hermitian forms

Oct 21

Eric Opdam
(University of Leiden)

Hecke algebras and the tempered L-function conjecture

Followed by dinner.

Oct 28

No meeting.

Nov 4

Wilfried Schmid
(Harvard University)

Hodge structures and unitary representations

Nov 11

David Vogan
(MIT)

Computing Hodge and weight filtrations of Harish-Chandra modules

Nov 18

No meeting

Nov 25

No meeting

Dec 2

Peter McNamara
(MIT)

Representations of metaplectic groups and their Whittaker functions

Dec 9

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Conjugacy classes in the Weyl group and unipotent elements

Feb 8

Tasho Kaletha
(University of Chicago)

Depth-zero local Langlands correspondence and endoscopic transfer

Followed by dinner.

Feb 15

Presidents Day Holiday

Feb 22

Xinwen Zhu
(Harvard)

Every flat bundle on the punctured disc has an oper structure

Followed by dinner.

Mar 1

Nigel Higson
(Penn State)

The Baum-Connes Conjecture and Group Representations

Followed by dinner.

Mar 8

David Vogan
(MIT)

Coxeter groups and regular polyhedra

Mar 15

Alessandra Pantano
(UC Irvine)

On the unitary dual of classical and exceptional real split groups

Mar 22

SPRING BREAK

Mar 29

Ivan Losev
(MIT)

Quantization of nilpotent orbits vs. W-algebras

Apr 5

Bert Kostant
(MIT)

Experimental evidence for the occurrence of E_8 in nature and the radii of the Gossett circles.

Apr 12

David Vogan
(MIT)

Contragredient representations and Langlands parameters (after Jeff Adams)

Apr 19

Patriots Day Holiday

Apr 26

George Lusztig
(MIT)

From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes

May 3

NO MEETING

Simons Lecture by Andrei Okounkov
Room 3-270

May 10

George Lusztig
(MIT)

From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes. II.