MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2010-2011
Current year
Spring 2011: Meets on Mondays 4:30-5:30, Room 4-153
Sep 13:
David Vogan (MIT)
Bruhat order for real groups
Sep 20:
George Lusztig (MIT)
From conjugacy classes in the Weyl group to unipotent classes revisited
September 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.
Tuesday 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
March 7:
Alexei Borodin (MIT)
From representation theory to probability
March 14:
Julee Kim (MIT)
Generalized Casselman-Shalika formula on GL_n
March 21:
SPRING BREAK
March 28:
NO MEETING
April 4:
Matvei Libine (Indiana University at Bloomington)
Quaternionic analysis and representation theory
FOLLOWED BY DINNER
April 11:
Pavle Pandzic (Cornell and University of Zagreb)
Translation principle for Dirac index
FOLLOWED BY DINNER
April 18:
Patriots Day Holiday
April 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.