MIT Lie Groups Seminar 1996-1997

MIT Lie Groups Seminar
1996-1997

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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.