MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 13

David Vogan
(MIT)

Bruhat order for real groups

Sept 20

George Lusztig
(MIT)

From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes revisited

Sept 27

David Vogan
(MIT)

The Langlands conjecture and covering groups (after Buzzard and Gee)

Oct 4

Avraham Aizenbud
(MIT)

Smooth transfer of Kloosterman integrals

Oct 11

NO MEETING: Columbus Day holiday

Oct 18

Ivan Losev
(MIT)

One-dimensional representations of $W$-algebras

Oct 25

Michel Duflo
(Paris VII)

Box splines and branching rules for discrete series

Followed by dinner.

Nov 1

David Treumann
(Northwestern)

Smith theory and geometric Hecke algebras

Followed by dinner.

Nov 8

Zhiwei Yun
(MIT)

From (certain) conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to (certain) unipotent classes, a detour via Langlands

Nov 15

Ben Harris
(MIT)

Fourier Transforms of Nilpotent, Coadjoint Orbits and Wave Front Cycles of Tempered Representations

Nov 22

David Vogan
(MIT)

Lyusternik-Schnirelman category for compact Lie groups (after Hunziker-Sepanski)

Nov 29

NO MEETING

Dec 6

George McNinch
(Tufts)

Levi factors and linear algebraic groups

Feb 7

David Vogan
(MIT)

Associated varieties and discrete series

Feb 14

David Vogan
(MIT)

Associated varieties and discrete series: classical groups

Feb 21

Presidents Day holiday; no meeting.

Feb 22
EXCEPTIONAL MEETING 4:30-6:00

Vladimir Sokolov
(Landau Institute, Moscow)

Symmetry approach to classification of integrable (1+1)-dimensional PDEs

Followed by dinner.

Feb 28

Jeff Adams
(University of Maryland)

Nilpotent orbits and the spherical unitary dual

Followed by dinner.

Mar 7

Alexei Borodin
(MIT)

From representation theory to probability

Mar 14

Julee Kim
(MIT)

Generalized Casselman-Shalika formula on GL_n

Mar 21

SPRING BREAK

Mar 28

NO MEETING

Apr 4

Matvei Libine
(Indiana University at Bloomington)

Quaternionic analysis and representation theory

Followed by dinner.

Apr 11

Pavle Pandzic
(Cornell and University of Zagreb)

Translation principle for Dirac index

Followed by dinner.

Apr 18

Patriots Day Holiday

Apr 25

NO MEETING

First Simons lecture by Manjul Bhargava

May 2

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Cleanness of cuspidal character sheaves.

May 9

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Generalization of Steinberg's cross section.