MIT Lie Groups Seminar
2015-2016

Current year

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.

September 23:

Sigurdur Helgason (MIT)
Introduction to Rouviere's Symmetric spaces and the Kashiwara-Vergne method

September 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

End of seminar for the fall semester.

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)

March 2:

Jessica Fintzen (Harvard)
On the Moy-Prasad filtration and supercuspidal representations

March 9:

NO MEETING

March 16:

NO MEETING

March 23:

SPRING BREAK: NO MEETING

Mar 30:

David Vogan (MIT)
Langlands parameters and finite-dimensional representations II

April 6:

NO MEETING
Next meeting April 13

April 13:

Naoki Imai (MIT and University of Tokyo)
Deligne-Lusztig construction for a pair of forms

April 20:

Pavel Etingof (MIT)
The Broue-Malle-Rouquier conjecture on Hecke algebras of complex reflection groups

April 27:

Eric Rains (CalTech)
Vinberg representations in awful characteristic
Followed by dinner.

May 2: NOTE SPECIAL DATE

Maarten Solleveld (Universitet Nijmegen)
Special location: 2-449
Special time: 2:00 p.m.
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
End of seminar for the spring semester.