Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics
Joint Seminar  —  Fall 2007


Organizers: Mark Haiman and Kolya Reshetikhin.
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Time and place: Wednesdays 4:00-6:00pm, 939 Evans

Course Control Number: 55075

Subject matter: Current research and special topics in representation theory, geometry and combinatorics and their interactions.

Calendar:

September
5 David Hill (UCB) Kac-Moody algebras of type A and the representation theory of symmetric groups and Hecke algebras
12 Albert Schwarz (UC Davis) Topological strings and arithmetic geometry
Today's seminar will meet 5-6:30
19 Amnon Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University) Twisted Deformation Quantization of Algebraic Varieties
26 Peter Tingley (UCB) The crystal commutor and Drinfeld's unitarized R-matrix
October
3 Joshua Sussan (UCB) A categorification of the colored Jones polynomial
10 Yan Soibelman (Kansas State) Donaldson-Thomas invariants for 3-dimensional Calabi-Yau categories
Today's seminar will meet 5-6:30
17 Ben Webster (IAS) Springer fibers for 2-block nilpotents and category O
24 Anthony Licata (Stanford) Quiver Varieties and the basic representation of gl(n)^
31 Masoud Kamgarpour (U. Chicago) Stacky abelianization of algebraic groups
November
7 David Hernandez (CNRS, Versailles) Geometric and combinatorial applications of Frenkel-Reshetikhin character theory
14 Marco Aldi (UCB) Sklyanin Algebras and Lagrangian Intersection Theory
21 No Seminar (Thanksgiving holiday)
28 -- -
December
5 Erik Carlsson (Princeton) Vertex Operators on Hilbert Schemes
12 -- (after last day of classes)
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