September 20*:
Vyjayanthi Chari (University of California Riverside),
The fermionic formula and the conjecture of Kirillov and Reshetikhin.
September 27:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
On Peterson's 2^l abelian ideals
theorem, the cohomology of loops(K), and MacDonald's eta function
formula I.
October 4:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
On Peterson's 2^l abelian ideals
theorem, the cohomology of loops(K), and MacDonald's eta function
formula II.
October 11:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
On Peterson's 2^l abelian ideals
theorem, the cohomology of loops(K), and MacDonald's eta function
formula III.
October 18:
David Vogan (MIT),
The Huang-Pandzic theorem for Dirac cohomology.
October 25*:
Toshi Kobayashi (Tokyo and Harvard),
Discontinuous subgroups for non-Riemannian homogeneous spaces.
November 1:
A. Braverman (MIT),
Gamma-sheaves on reductive groups.
November 8*:
David Renard (Poitiers),
Genuine representations of the metaplectic group (joint with P. Trapa).
November 15:
Pramod Achar (MIT),
Equivariant coherent sheaves on the
nilpotent cone in GL(n,C).
November 22:
Anthony Henderson (MIT),
Spherical functions for the
symmetric space GL(n,F_{q^2})/GL(n,F_q).
November 29:
No meeting.
December 6:
No meeting.
February 7, 2001:
Thom Pietraho (MIT),
Orbital varieties in classical Lie algebras.
February 14*:
Peter Trapa (Harvard),
Partial orders on components of the Springer fiber and applications.
February 21*:
Joseph Johnson,
Twisted Euler-Poincare characteristics of complex algebraic groups.
February 28:
Viktor Ostrik (MIT),
Asymptotic Hecke algebras and central sheaves.
March 7:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
The Weyl algebra and the structure of all Lie superalgebras of
Riemannian type.
March 14*:
Benjamin Enriquez (ENS Paris),
Quantum groups associated with complex curves.
March 21*:
Valerio Toledano (MSRI),
A Kohno-Drinfeld theorem for quantum Weyl groups.
March 28:
No meeting (Spring Break). Don't forget to attend Lafforgue's Simons Lectures (March 28,29,30 in Room 2-190 at 2pm).
April 4:
Toshiyuki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo and Harvard),
Conformal geometry and analysis on the minimal representation of
O(p,q).
April 11*:
Gordan Savin (University of Utah and Harvard),
A theory of
modular forms on G_2.
April 18:
Gordan Savin (University of Utah and Harvard),
A notion of
N-rank for exceptional groups.
April 25:
David Vogan (MIT),
Branching theorems for compact symmetric
spaces (after A. Knapp).
May 2*:
D. Timashev (visiting MIT),
Affine embeddings with finitely
many orbits.
May 9:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Rationality properties of unipotent
representations
May 16*:
Martin Andler (Université de
Versailles),
Invariant distributions and Kontsevich's deformation
quantization.
June 1:
Masato Okado (Osaka University),
Conjectures on fermionic formulas.