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April 13-15, 2007
Lie Algebra Workshop
University of Ottawa
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University of Ottawa |
Overview
The workshop will feature talks on recent advances in the theory
of Lie algebras and related subjects. In particular, there will
be a focus on current developments in geometric representation
theory. During the workshop Shrawan Kumar (University of
North Carolina) will present a CRM-University of Ottawa Distinguished
Lecture.
Other speakers include:
B. Allison (Alberta)
S. Arkhipov (Toronto)
Y. Billig (Carleton)
D. Brooke (University of Toronto)
V. Chari (UC Riverside)
C. Hague (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
G. Hofmann (Dalhousie University)
J. Kamnitzer (UC Berkeley)
A. Kirillov, Jr. (SUNY Stony Brook)
A. Licata (Yale)
M. Nesterenko (University of Montreal)
P. Senesi (UC Riverside)
P. Winternitz (CRM)
S. Zwicknagl (UC Riverside)
There is no registration fee. However, participants
are encouraged to register early to facilitate room reservations,
to ensure the receipt of conference update emails, and to help
students identify potential roommates.
Support for graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows
There are limited funds available to support graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows. If interested, please complete the online
form by February 25, 2007. Application is now closed.
Schedule
Location: All events will take place in the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics, 585 King Edward, University of Ottawa. The talks
will be in room B005. The registration on Friday, the coffee breaks
and the lunch on Saturday will be in room 104 (lounge).
Friday, April 13, 2007
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| 9:30-10:00 |
On-site registration and coffee in room 104
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| 10:00-10:45 |
Bruce Allison, University of Alberta
Realization of Lie tori
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Georg Hofmann, Dalhousie University
Weyl groups with presentation by conjugation
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| 11:45-12:30 |
Anthony Licata, Yale University
Quiver varieties and level-rank duality
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00-14:45 |
Pavel Winternitz, CRM and Université de Montréal
Applications of Lie theory to the numerical solution
of differential equations
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee in room 104 (departmental lounge)
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| 15:30-16:30 |
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Eigenvalue problem and a new product in cohomology of flag
varieties
(CRM distinguished lecture)
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| 17:00-17:45 |
Sergey Arkhipov, University of Toronto
On an exotic bialgebra structure on the semi-regular
module
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Saturday, April 14, 2007
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| 9:30-10:00 |
On-site registration and coffee in room 104
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| 10:00-10:45 |
Joel Kamnitzer, University of California, Berkeley
Categorification of Reshtikhin-Turaev invariants via the
loop Grassmannian
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Charles Hague, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Cohomology of cotangent bundles of flag varieties and the
BK-filtration |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Equivariant K-theory of flag varieties
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch in room 104 (departmental lounge)
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| 14:00-14:45 |
Alexander Kirillov Jr., SUNY Stony Brook
Affine root systems and equivariant sheaves on P1
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Maryna Nesterenko, Université de Montréal
Contractions of low-dimensional Lie algebras
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| 15:30- 16:00 |
Coffee in room 104 (departmental lounge)
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Sebastian Zwicknagl, University of California, Riverside
Quantum symmetric algebras and their applications
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| 17:00-17:45 |
Yuly Billig, Carleton University
Cohomology of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a parallelizable
manifold
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| 18:30 |
No-host dinner (details to be determined)
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Sunday, April 15, 2006
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Coffee in room 104 (departmental lounge)
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| 9:30-10:00 |
David Brooke, University of Toronto
On decomposing repeated representations in a tensor product
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| 10:20-10:50 |
Prasad Senesi, University of California, Riverside
Weyl modules of twisted loop algebras
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| 11:20-12:00 |
Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California, Riverside
Weyl modules for the loop algebra of an affine Kac-Moody
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