September 10, 1997:
Alexander Braverman (MIT),
Kazhdan-Laumon representations.
September 17:
George Lusztig (MIT),
Representations of Lie algebras in
characteristic p.
October 1:
Mark Reeder (Boston College),
Wedge g, small modules, and
the Springer correspondence.
October 8:
Monica Nevins (MIT),
The orbit method: forays in p-adic groups.
October 15:
Peter Trapa (MIT),
Unitary representations of U(p,q).
October 22:
David Vogan (MIT),
Dirac operator and unitary
representations.
October 29:
Konni Rietsch (MIT),
Total positivity for flag varieties.
November 5:
David Vogan (MIT),
Dirac operator and unitary
representations (continued).
November 12:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
Discrete series representations
and the 2^l abelian ideals in b.
November 19:
Bertram Kostant (MIT),
Discrete series representations
and the 2^l abelian ideals in b.
November 26:
David Vogan (MIT),
Dirac operator and unitary
representations (concluded).
December 3:
Ivan Cherednik (University of North Carolina),
Difference
spherical functions.
December 10:
Robert Donley (MIT),
Intertwining operators and the
discrete series.
February 4, 1998:
Jing-Song Huang (HKUST and MIT),
Small
nilpotent orbits and unitary representations.
February 11:
Edward Dunne (AMS),
A Penrose-type
transform for odd-dimensional hyperbolic space.
February 18:
Alexander Braverman (MIT),
`Schwartz' functions on the
basic affine space, Eisenstein series and generic Kazhdan-Lusztig
polynomials.
February 25:
Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard),
Geometric Eisenstein series.
March 4:
David Vogan (MIT),
K-types, signatures, and modules on the
nilpotent cone.
March 11:
David Vogan (MIT),
K-types, signatures, and modules on the
nilpotent cone (conclusion).
March 18:
Markus Hunziker (Brandeis),
Harish-Chandra systems and
invariant differential operators on a reductive Lie algebra.
April 1:
Fiona Murnaghan (University of Toronto),
Characters of
admissible representations of p-adic groups.
April 8:
Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers University),
A new formula for
weight multiplicities and characters.
April 15:
David Vogan (MIT),
Norm estimates for unitary highest weight
representations (after B. Krotz).
April 22:
Don King (Northeastern University),
The moment mapping on
spherical nilpotent orbits.
April 29:
Sam Evens (University of Arizona),
Poisson geometry and a
theorem of Kostant.
May 6:
Zoltan Magyar (Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences),
How to decide that a real Lie group is `reductive'.
May 13:
Gregg Zuckerman (Yale University and Harvard),
Duality for
cohomological induction.