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Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics Joint Seminar—Fall 2008

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Organizers: Mark Haiman and Kolya Reshetikhin, with the assistance of David Hill and Josh Sussan
E-mail: ,

Time and place: Mondays 1:00-3:00pm, 939 Evans

Course Control Number: 55018

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

Calendar:

September
8	Dan Edidin (University of Missouri)	Completions of equivariant K-theory and algebraic cycles
15	Jonah Blasiak (UCB)	Cyclage, catabolism, and the affine Hecke algebra
22	Jon Kujawa (University of Oklahoma)	Crystal Graphs and the Modular Representations of the Supergroup GL(m|n)
29	Reimundo Heluani (UCB)	Generalized Complex Geometry and Conformal Supersymmetry
October
6	Aaron Lauda (Columbia University)	Categorifying Quantum Groups
13	Xinwen Zhu (UCB)	Affine Demazure Modules and T-fixed point subschemes in the Affine Grassmanian
20	A.J. Tolland (UCB)	Gromov-Witten Invariants for $pt / \mathbb{C}^{\times}$
27	Sebastian Zwicknagel (UC Riverside)	Lie Bialgebras and Quantizations of Symmetric Algebras
November
3	Michael Rose (UCB)	On Categorification of Donaldson-Thomas invariants
10	Noah Snyder (UCB)	Quantum Analogues of Finite Groups
17	Luca Scala (University of Chicago)	Strange duality on the projective plane and cohomology of tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes of points on a surface
24	Jonathan Brown (Univesity of Oregon)	Representation Theory of Finite W-Algebras and Twisted Yangians
December
1	—	(open)
8	Jon Brundan (University of Oregon)	Khovanov’s Diagram Algebra, Grassmannians and the General Linear Supergroup.
15	—	(during finals)

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