September 4: Peter Trapa (Utah/Harvard),
Restrictions on characteristic
cycles of Harish-Chandra modules (Part 1).
abstract
September 11:
Peter Trapa (Utah/Harvard),
Restrictions on characteristic
cycles of Harish-Chandra modules (Part 2).
September 18:
Maxim Vybornov (MIT),
Quiver varieties
and infinite Grassmannians of type A (joint with Ivan Mirkovic).
abstract
September 25:
V. Lakshmibai (Northeastern),
A standard monomial basis for the variety of nilpotent matrices.
(This seminar is a joint meeting with the combinatorics seminar and
will meet at 4:15 in 2-338.) abstract
October 2:
Konni Rietsch* (King's College London),
Total
positivity and the Peterson variety.
October 9:
David Vogan (MIT),
Shimura correspondence
for spherical representations of split real groups.
abstract
October 16:
Dan Barbasch* (Cornell University),
Affine graded Hecke algebras and the spherical unitary dual for
real reductive groups.
abstract
October 23:
Michael Shapiro (Michigan State),
Cluster algebras and Poisson geometry.
(This seminar is a joint meeting with the combinatorics seminar and
will meet at 4:15 in 2-338.) abstract
October 30:
Pavle Pandzic* (Zagreb),
Dirac cohomology and u cohomology.
abstract
November 6:
James Arthur* (Toronto),
Representations of classical groups.
November 13:
Greg Warrington* (University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and counterexamples to the
0-1 conjecture.
(This seminar is a joint meeting with the combinatorics seminar but
will meet at the usual time and place, 4:30 in 2-147.)
abstract
November 20:
No meeting this week.
November 27*:
Marty Weissman (Harvard),
The Fourier-Jacobi Map
and Small Representations.
December 4:
Benedict Gross (Harvard),
The exceptional series and its descendants.
December 11:
Viktor Ostrik (MIT),
Non-semisimple tensor categories.
February 5*:
George McNinch (Notre Dame),
Arithmetic nilpotent orbits for reductive groups in positive
characteristic.
abstract
February 12*:
Alexander Braverman (Harvard),
From automorphic sheaves to Drinfeld shtukas (joint work with
Y.Varshavsky).
abstract
February 19:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
Recent developments on powers of the Dedekind
function and representation theory.
abstract
February 26*:
Angela Pasquale (Technische Universitat Clausthal),
Harmonic analysis
of Theta-spherical functions.
March 5*:
Alexander Polishchuk (Boston University),
Spherical vectors in
minimal representations.
March 12:
David Vogan (MIT),
A blip in the Shimura correspondence for F4 (joint with Dan Barbasch).
abstract
March 19*:
Gordan Savin (Utah),
Correspondences of representations of real groups arising from Arthur
packets
March 26:
No meeting (Spring Break).
April 2:
No meeting.
April 9:
Alan Roche (Oklahoma),
Hecke algebras
and representations of reductive p-adic groups.
abstract
This seminar will meet at 3pm in 2-132!
April 16:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Conjugacy classes in the DeConcini-Procesi compactification.
April 23:
Pavel Etingof (MIT),
Representations of Cherednik algebras.
abstract
April 30*:
Shrawan Kumar (North Carolina),
An induction functor in non-commutative equivariant
cohomology and Dirac cohomology.
May 7*:
Oleg Chalykh (Loughborough University),
Quasi-invariants of Weyl groups and an elementary proof of
Macdonald's conjectures.
abstract
May 14:
No meeting.
May 21:
Roger Zierau* (Oklahoma State),
The Dirac operator on reductive homogeneous spaces.
Seminar contact: David Vogan
(dav@math.mit.edu)