MIT Lie Groups Seminar 1998-1999

MIT Lie Groups Seminar
1998-1999

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September 16, 1998: P. Trapa (IAS), Robinson-Schensted algorithms for Lie groups and a conjecture of Tanisaki's.


September 23: A. Braverman (MIT), Normalized intertwining operators and families of Calabi-Yau manifolds.


September 30: David Vogan (MIT), Fundamental groups for nilpotent orbits.


October 7: David Vogan (MIT), Representations of fundamental groups for nilpotent orbits.


October 14: Michael Kleber (MIT), Quadratic relations among characters.


October 21: Wilfried Schmid (Harvard), On the geometry of nilpotent orbits.


October 28: Harm Derksen (MIT), Generalized quivers associated to reductive groups.


November 4: Bert Kostant (MIT), On a conjecture of Hanspeter Kraft on tensor products of representations.


November 11: Bert Kostant (MIT), A cubic Dirac operator and the emergence of multiplets for equal rank subgroups (part I).


November 18: Bert Kostant (MIT), A cubic Dirac operator and the emergence of multiplets for equal rank subgroups (part II).


December 2: Boris Sirola (Zagreb and MIT), On associated primes and applications to representation theory.


December 9: David Vogan (MIT), The set of weights of an irreducible representation (after Fernando, Futorny, et al.)


February 17, 1999: David Vogan (MIT), Nilpotent orbits and unitary representations.


February 24: David Vogan (MIT), Nilpotent orbits and unitary representations (continued).


March 3: Harm Derksen (MIT), Semi-invariants of quivers and Klyachko's saturation problem.


March 10: David Renard (IAS), Endoscopy for the metaplectic group.


March 17: Dan Barbasch (Cornell), Some results about unipotent representations.


March 31: Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University and MIT), Quantum affine algebras and crystals with core.


April 7: Eric Sommers (Harvard), Special nilpotent orbits and Lusztig's canonical quotient.


April 21: Arun Ram (Princeton), Young tableaux, Affine Hecke algebras, and Langlands parameters.


April 28: David Vogan (MIT), Intertwining operators and Weyl group representations.


May 5: Allen Moy (University of Michigan), A new proof of Howe's conjecture on group distributions via the Bruhat-Tits building.


May 12: T. Wedhorn (MIT), Reduction of Hecke correspondences.