MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Sept 26

David Vogan
(MIT)

Single-petaled $K$-types and Weyl group representations (after Hiroshi Oda)

Sept 27
COLLOQUIUM TALK

Paul Sally
(University of Chicago)

Supercuspidal Representations from Mautner to Kim-Yu and Stevens.

Oct 3

Chuying Fang

Ad-nilpotent ideals for complex and real reductive Lie algebras.

Followed by dinner.

Oct 10

John Stembridge
(University of Michigan)

Admissible W-graphs.

Joint meeting with the Combinatorics seminar

Followed by dinner.

Oct 17

Wiener Lecture by Assaf Naor

Oct 24

George Lusztig
(MIT)

Canonical bases and construction of Chevalley groups over a commutative ring.

Oct 31

Dmitry Boyarchenko
(University of Chicago)

Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields

Followed by dinner.

Nov 7

Kobi Kremnizer
(MIT)

Quantum localization

Nov 14

David Vogan
(MIT)

Bruhat order on representations of real reductive groups.

Nov 21

Jerin Gu
(MIT)

Single-petaled K-types for classical groups.

Nov 28

Vyacheslav Futorny
(University of Sao Paulo)

Galois algebras: structure, representations, and applications

Dec 5

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

Abelian ideals in the Borel, and the generalization of the Amitsur-Levitzki Theorem

Dec 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

Feb 6

David Vogan
(MIT)

Constant terms of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials

Feb 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).

Feb 20

Miki Havlickova
(MIT)

Boundaries of K-types in Discrete series

Feb 27

Pavle Pandzic
(University of Zagreb, Cornell)

Dirac operators on Harish-Chandra modules

Followed by dinner.

Mar 5

Bertram Kostant
(MIT)

On some of the mathematics in Garrett Lisi's 'E₈ Theory of Everything'

Mar 12

Jiu-Kang Yu
(Purdue)

A dyadic exercise in the construction of supercuspidal representations and types

Followed by dinner.

Mar 19

Alex Chervov
(IAS)

The center of U_crit ((gl_n)^) and the Langlands correspondence over C

Followed by dinner.

Mar 26, Apr 2

No seminar

Apr 9

Susana Salamanca-Riba
(NMSU)

Generalized A_q modules for metaplectic groups

Followed by dinner.

Apr 16

David Vogan
(MIT)

Root data and group homomorphisms

May 7

Steven Jackson
(UMass Boston)

Topic TBA

Followed by dinner.

May 14

Hadi Salmasian
(University of Alberta)

On the structure and geometry of infinite-dimensional classical Lie groups.

Followed by dinner.