Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics
Joint Seminar  —  Spring 2008


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

Course Control Number: 55024

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

Calendar:

January
28 Kobi Kremnizer (MIT) Localization—Classical, Modular and Quantum
February
6 Ronny Hadani (Chicago) On the diagonalization of the discrete Fourier transform Note: seminar will meet on Wednesday this week in Room 891 Evans
11 Michael Rose (UBC/UCB) Mirror symmetry and l-adic Chen-Ruan cohomology
18 No seminar President's day holiday
25 Ozgur Ceyhan (Univ. de Montreal) Yet again, quantum cohomology and enumerative geometry: A real story
March
3 Hsian-Hua Tseng (Wisconsin) Twisted Orbifold Gromov-Witten Invariants in Genus Zero
10 John Conway (Princeton) Nearly Universal Quadratic Forms. Today's seminar will meet 2:10-4:00pm in Room 241 Cory Hall
17 Sergiy Koshkin (Northwestern) Universal Chern-Simons invariants and Gromov-Witten potentials
24 No seminar Spring recess
31 Jeff Brown (UCB) Gromov-Witten invariants of toric fibrations
April
7 Ludmil Katzarkov (Miami) Generalized Homological Mirror Symmetry and applications
14 Brendon Rhoades (Minnesota) Cyclic Sieving, Promotion, and Representation Theory
21 Andrew Linshaw (UCSD) Invariant chiral differential operators
28 Alexander Braverman (Brown) Spherical and Iwahori Hecke algebras for affine Kac-Moody groups
May
5 David Hill (UCB) Lie superalgebras and Degenerate Affine Sergeev Algebras
12 Elizabeth Gasparim (UCB) Nekrasov conjecture for toric varieties
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