MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 9

Avraham Aizenbud
(Weizmann Institute)

z-finite distributions on p-adic groups

Followed by dinner.

Sept 16

Pavle Pandzic
(University of Zagreb)

Classifying Aq(lambda)-modules by their Dirac cohomology.

Followed by dinner.

Sept 23

Sigurdur Helgason
(MIT)

Introduction to Rouviere's Symmetric spaces and the Kashiwara-Vergne method

Sept 30

David Vogan
(MIT)

Dirac index and associated varieties

Oct 7

David Vogan
(MIT)

Dirac index and associated varieties II

Oct 14

Nate Harman
(MIT)

Stability and periodicity in the modular representation theory of symmetric groups

Oct 21

Salah Mehdi
(University of Metz)

Representation-theoretic embeddings of differential operators

Followed by dinner.

Oct 28

Beth Romano
(Boston College)

Representations of p-adic groups via geometric invariant theory

Followed by dinner.

Nov 4

Vinoth Nandakumar
(University of Utah)

Categorification via blocks of modular representations

Followed by dinner.

Nov 11

VETERANS DAY: HOLIDAY

Nov 18

No meeting.

Nov 25

No meeting: Thanksgiving

Dec 2

Stephen Miller
(Rutgers University)

Unipotent unitary representations and Eisenstein series

Followed by dinner.

Dec 9

Salim Ali Altuğ
(Columbia University)

Arthur-Selberg trace formula and related problems

Followed by dinner.

Feb 3

David Vogan
(MIT)

Langlands parameters and finite-dimensional representations

Feb 10

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Positivity properties of special representations of Weyl groups

Feb 17

Ivan Loseu
(Northeastern University)

Cacti and cells

Feb 24

David Vogan

Galois cohomology and theta cohomology for real groups (following Adams)

Mar 2

Jessica Fintzen
(Harvard)

On the Moy-Prasad filtration and supercuspidal representations

Mar 9

NO MEETING

Mar 16

NO MEETING

Mar 23

SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING

Mar 30

David Vogan
(MIT)

Langlands parameters and finite-dimensional representations II

Apr 6

NO MEETING

Apr 13

Naoki Imai
(MIT and University of Tokyo)

Deligne-Lusztig construction for a pair of forms

Apr 20

Pavel Etingof
(MIT)

The Broue-Malle-Rouquier conjecture on Hecke algebras of complex reflection groups

Apr 27

Eric Rains
(CalTech)

Vinberg representations in awful characteristic

Followed by dinner.

May 2
Special location: 2-449
Special time: 2:00 p.m.

Maarten Solleveld
(Universitet Nijmegen)

Cuspidality and Hecke algebras for Langlands parameters

Followed by dinner at 6 p.m.

May 4

Colette Moeglin
(Jussieu)

A-packets for complex groups

Joint work with David Renard

Followed by dinner.

May 11

Shilin Yu
(University of Pennsylvania)

Deformation of representations of semisimple Lie groups

Followed by dinner.