MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 4

David Vogan
(MIT)

Leading terms of characters

Sept 11

Dan Ciubotaru
(University of Utah)

Dirac cohomology of graded Hecke algebra modules and spin representations of Weyl groups I

Followed by dinner.

Sept 18

Dan Ciubotaru
(University of Utah)

Dirac cohomology of graded Hecke algebra modules and spin representations of Weyl groups II

Sept 25

Hiroshi Oda
(Takushoku University and MIT)

Differential-difference operators and radial part formulas for non-invariant elements

Oct 2

Laura Rider
(MIT)

Parity sheaves on the affine Grassmannian and the Mirkovic-Vilonen conjecture

Oct 9

David Vogan
(MIT)

Leading terms of characters (continued)

Oct 16

Koichi Kaizuka
(University of Tsukuba)

A characterization of the L2-range of the Poisson transform on symmetric spaces of noncompact type

Followed by dinner.

Oct 23
Special room 10-250
Special time 4:30

Edward Frenkel
(UC Berkeley)

The Langlands Program and Quantum Physics

Oct 30

Mario DeFranco
(MIT)

The Bessel function of unramified principal series

Nov 6

Lei Zhang
(Boston College)

Tensor Product L-functions of Quasi-split Classical Groups of Hermitian Type

Nov 13

Lei Zhang
(Boston College)

Fourier Coefficients and Certain Periods of Cuspidal Automorphic Forms--Local Aspect

Nov 20

Eric Marberg
(Stanford)

Canonical bases and deformations of Coxeter group representations

Followed by dinner.

Nov 27

No meeting: Thanksgiving

Dec 4

James Lepowsky
(Rutgers University)

Logarithmic tensor category theory---an introduction

Followed by dinner.

Dec 11

Ben Elias
(MIT)

A q-deformation of geometric Satake in type A

Feb 5

NO MEETING

Feb 12

Pavel Etingof
(MIT)

Tensors of rank pi

Feb 19

David Vogan
(MIT)

W-graphs and Harish-Chandra modules

Feb 26

Ivan Loseu
(Northeastern)

Multiplicities in the category O for gl(m|n)

Mar 5

Hiroshi Oda
(Takushoku University)

The abstract radial part formula

Mar 12

NO MEETING

Dan Spielman gives Simons Lecture at 4:30

Mar 19

Hiroshi Oda
(Takushoku University)

Functors connecting semisimple Lie groups and graded Hecke algebras

Mar 26

NO MEETING

SPRING BREAK

Apr 2

Ben Harris
(Louisiana State University)

On the orbit method for reductive groups

Followed by dinner.

Apr 9

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Unipotent representations as a categorical centre

Apr 16

David Vogan
(MIT)

Twisting representations and Hecke modules

Apr 23

David Vogan
(MIT)

Twisting representations and Hecke modules II

Apr 30

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Exceptional representations of Weyl groups

May 7

NO MEETING

May 14

NO MEETING

Ben Green gives Simons Lecture at 4:30