September 4, 1996:
Sheldon Chang (MIT),
Loop group actions and fixed point
formulas.
September 11:
David Vogan (MIT),
Convex cones and classification theorems.
Part 1 of 2.
September 18:
David Vogan (MIT),
Convex cones and classification theorems.
Part 2 of 2.
September 25:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Periodic W-graphs. Part 1 of 2.
October 2:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Periodic W-graphs. Part 2 of 2.
October 16:
Tohru Uzawa (Tohoku University and MIT),
Compactifications of complete conics over Z.
October 23:
Tohru Uzawa (Tohoku University and MIT),
Compactifications of complete conics over Z (continued).
October 30:
David Vogan (MIT),
Residues and regular functions on
nilpotent $K_{\Bbb C}$ orbits.
November 6:
Jyoti Sengupta (MIT and Tata Institute),
Spectral analysis on
rank one symmetric spaces.
November 13:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
Clifford algebra analogue of the
Hopf-Koszul-Samelson theorem, the rho-decomposition, C(g) = End V_rho tensor
C(p), and the g-module structure of wedge g.
November 20:
Pavle Pandzic (MIT),
Zuckerman functors for
non-reductive groups and Bernstein-Lunts equivalence.
November 27:
Tohru Uzawa (Tohoku University and MIT),
Real moment map.
December 4:
John Stalker (MIT),
Jacobi and the root lattice of F_4.
December 11:
David Renard (MIT),
Transfer of orbital integrals between
SO(n+1,n) and Mp(2n,R) and genuine representations of the metaplectic
group.
February 12, 1997:
David Vogan (MIT),
Discrete decomposability of
restrictions (after T. Kobayashi).
February 19:
Eric Sommers (MIT),
A family of affine Weyl group
representations.
February 26:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Constructible functions on the
Steinberg variety
Thursday, March 6:
Special lecture by Allan
Adler,
Invariants of SL(2,q) acting on C^n, 2n\pm 1 =q.
March 12:
Dale Peterson (UBC and MIT),
Quantum cohomology of G/P.
March 19:
Dale Peterson (UBC and MIT),
Quantum cohomology of G/P (continued).
April 9:
David Vogan (MIT),
Simple root systems and their automorphisms.
April 16:
Paul Sally (Chicago),
Supercuspidal characters.
April 23:
Allen Knutson (Brandeis),
Some geometry behind Littelmann's
Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths.
April 30:
Dipendra Prasad,
(Harvard and Mehta Research Institute)
Theta correspondence for unitary groups.
May 7:
David Renard (MIT),
Twisted orbital integrals for real
reductive groups.
May 14:
Joerg Winkelmann (Harvard),
Complex parallelizable manifolds.
May 21:
Susana Salamanca-Riba (New Mexico State University),
Unitary
representations with strongly regular infinitesimal character.