MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2007-2008



Current year

Spring 2008: Meets on Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 in Room 2-142




NEXT MEETING:



  • May 7:
    • Steven Jackson (UMass Boston)
    • Topic TBA
    • Followed by dinner
  • March 26, April 2: No seminar
  • February 13:
    • No meeting
    • David Vogan will speak in the ``Group Actions in Geometry'' seminar in 4-231 at 3:00, on ``Group representations on Dolbeault cohomology.'' (Not suitable for grownup group representers).
  • December 12: Talk at 4:15 in 2-142
    • Arkady Berenstein (University of Oregon)
    • From generic crystals to crystal bases
    • Joint meeting with the MIT combinatorics seminar
  • December 5:
    • Bertram Kostant (MIT)
    • Abelian ideals in the Borel, and the generalization of the Amitsur-Levitzki Theorem
  • November 28:
    • Vyacheslav Futorny (University of Sao Paulo)
    • Galois algebras: structure, representations, and applications
  • November 21:
    • Jerin Gu (MIT)
    • Single-petaled K-types for classical groups.
  • October 24:
    • George Lusztig (MIT)
    • Canonical bases and construction of Chevalley groups over a commutative ring.
  • October 17: Wiener Lecture by Assaf Naor
  • October 10:
    • John Stembridge (University of Michigan)
    • Admissible W-graphs.
    • Followed by dinner
    • Joint meeting with the Combinatorics seminar
  • October 3:
    • Chuying Fang
    • Ad-nilpotent ideals for complex and real reductive Lie algebras.
    • Followed by dinner
  • September 27: COLLOQUIUM TALK
    • Paul Sally (University of Chicago)
    • Supercuspidal Representations from Mautner to Kim-Yu and Stevens.