Lie Groups Seminar

Lie Groups Seminar

List of Talks given in 2000-01

Friday, September 1   Marcelo Aguiar, University of Montreal (Canada)
On the associative analog of Lie bialgebras
Friday, September 8   Birgit Speh, Cornell University
Geometric and topological invariants of locally symmetric spaces and representation theory
Friday, September 15   Ken Brown, Cornell University
Introduction to twin buildings
Friday, September 22   J. M. Landsberg, Universite de Toulouse and Georgia Institute of Technology
Freudenthal's magic, Deligne's numerology and Vogel's conjectured "Universal Lie Algebra"
Friday, September 29   Lawren Smithline, Cornell University
Bounding slopes of p-adic modular forms
Friday, October 13   Peter Trapa, Harvard University
An L-formalism for the metaplectic group
Friday, October 20   Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan
Scattering matrices and scattering geodesics of locally symmetric spaces
Friday, October 27   Anthony Kable, Cornell University
Tensor products, the Gelfand-Graev representation of GL(2,q) and identities for special sums
Friday, November 3   Yuri Berest, Cornell University
Varieties of quasi-invariants of finite reflection groups
Friday, November 17   Vesselin Gasharov, Cornell University
Smooth Schubert varieties
Friday, December 1   Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University
Taylor's program for the two dimensional Artin conjecture