Geometric Representation Theory
Seminar  —  Fall 2008


Organizers: Sergey Arkhipov, and Joel Kamnitzer.
E-mail: jkamnitz@math.toronto.edu.

Time and place: Mondays 4:00-5:30pm, Bahen B024 or Wednesday 2:00-3:30 pm, Bahen 6180

Subject matter: Current research and expository talks in representation theory, geometry and combinatorics and their interactions.

Calendar:

September
15 Sergey Arkhipov (Toronto) Towards algebro-geometric proof of Freed-Hopkins-Teleman Theorem I.
22 Sergey Arkhipov (Toronto) Towards algebro-geometric proof of Freed-Hopkins-Teleman Theorem II.
29 Silvia Montarani (Toronto) Finite dimensional representations of symplectic reflection algebras for wreath products.
October
8 Tom Baird (Toronto/Oxford) Moduli spaces of flat bundles over nonorientable surfaces and GKM cohomology with module coefficients.
29 Chris Brav (Toronto) Cancelled
November
3 Carl Mautner (UT Austin) Geometry of a modular Schur-Weyl theorem
10 Alexander Polishchuk (Oregon) Algebraic cycles on Jacobians and symmetric powers of curves.
17 Chris Brav (Toronto) Derived categories of Grassmannians and Pfaffians I.
24 Chris Brav (Toronto) Derived categories of Grassmannians and Pfaffians II.
December
11 Peter Tingley (Melbourne) Quiver Grassmannians and a geometric realization of the Schutzenberger involution.
11 Ivan Mirkovic (UMass Amherst) Geometrization of Modular Representation Theory of Lie algebras.
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