Learning seminar on coideal subalgebras


Spring 2016 Schedule

Location: Fridays, 10am - 12pm at HU1018


Jan 29 Coideal subalgebras-background, generators, Harish-Chandra modules, examples. [L, Sections 1-6]
Speaker: Khoa Pham. Notes
Feb 5 Quantum symmetric pairs. [L, Section 7], [D], [Kn]
Speaker: Peter Crooks. Notes
Feb 12 Lie superalgebras. [CCF], [Ka1], [Ka2], [M]
Speaker: Khoa Pham. Notes
Feb 19 On the geometry of the Feigin-Odesskii Poisson structures on CP^n.
Guest speaker: Mykola Matviichuk. Abstract Notes
Feb 26 Quantum symmetric Kac-Moody pairs I. [Ko], [A]
Speaker: Alex Weekes. Notes
Mar 4 Quantum symmetric Kac-Moody pairs II. [Ko], [MRS], [HKS]
Speaker: Alex Weekes. Notes
Mar 11 Canonical bases, Hecke algebras, and Kazhdan-Lusztig bases. [Hu], [T]
Speaker: Anne Dranovski. Notes
Mar 18 Categorification and dualities I. [ES], [Hu2]
Speaker: Iva Halacheva. Notes
Mar 25 Categorification and dualities II. [ES]
Speaker: Iva Halacheva
Apr 1 Canonical bases from quantum symmetric pairs I. [BW]
Speaker: Chia-Cheng Liu
Apr 8 Canonical bases from quantum symmetric pairs II. [BW]
Speaker: Chia-Cheng Liu
Bibliography
[A] S. Araki, On root systems and an infinitesimal classification of irreducible symmetric spaces
[BW] H. Bao, W. Wang, A new approach to Kazhdan-Lusztig theory of type B via quantum symmetric pairs
[CCF] C. Carmeli, L. Caston, R. Fioresi, Mathematical foundations of supersymmetry
[D] M. Dijkhuizen, Some remarks on the construction of quantum symmetric spaces
[ES] M. Ehrig, C. Stroppel, Nazarov-Wenzl algebras, coideal subalgebras and categorified skew Howe duality
[HKS] I. Heckenberger, S. Kolb, J. Stokman, Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop: Coideal subalgebras of quantum groups
[Hu] J. Humphreys, Reflection groups and Coxeter groups
[Hu2] J. Humphreys, Representations of semisimple Lie algebras in the BGG category O
[Ka1] V. Kac, A sketch of Lie superalgebra theory
[Ka2] V. Kac, Lie superalgebras
[Kn] A. Knapp, Lie groups beyond an introduction
[Ko] S. Kolb, Quantum symmetric Kac-Moody pairs
[L] G. Letzter, Coideal subalgebras and quantum symmetric pairs
[MRS] A. I. Molev, E. Ragoucy, P. Sorba, Coideal subalgebras in quantum affine algebras
[M] I. Musson, Lie superalgebras and enveloping algebras
[S] S. Helgason, Differential geometry, Lie groups, and symmetric spaces
[T] P. Tingley, Elementary construction of Lusztig's canonical basis