Geometric Representation Theory

University of Toronto

Winter 2012

Organizers: Sergey Arkhipov, Joel Kamnitzer, Oded Yacobi

Time and place: Fridays, 3:00-4:00 in Bahen 4010

Subject matter: Current research and expository talks in representation theory, geometry, combinatorics and their interactions. If interested in giving a talk, please email one of the organizers.

For more information see also the previous semesters’ seminars:

· Fall 2011

· Winter 2011

· Fall 2010

· Winter 2010

Date	Speaker (Institution)	Title
Jan 13	Allen Knutson (Cornell)	Bruhat cells and atlases thereof
Jan 20	Florian Herzig (Toronto)	The classification of irreducible mod p representations of a p-adic GL_n
Jan 27	Zsuzsanna Dancso (Fields)	Categorifications of the characteristic polynomial of hyperplane arrangements
Mar 2	Avner Segal (Ben-Gurion University)	L-functions and their generating functions
Mar 12	Ian Le (Northwestern)	Laminations, affine buildings, and invariants of tensor products of representations
Mar 23	Steven Rayan (Toronto)	Combinatorics of twisted Higgs bundles: g=0 and beyond
Mar 26*	Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)	Real variations of stability conditions and representation theory

* Roman’s talk will be held in BA 024, at 1pm.