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2013–2014 Schedule of talks

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Spring 2014

Time and location: Friday 03:30 pm–04:30 pm, Malott Hall 406.

31 JanOrganizational meeting
07 FebNo talk
14 FebReyer Sjamaar, Cornell UniversityEquivariant cohomology I
21 FebAlexander Caviedes Castro, University of TorontoUpper bounds for the Gromov width of coadjoint orbits
28 FebReyer Sjamaar, Cornell UniversityEquivariant cohomology II
07 MarBruce Fontaine, Cornell UniversityAn introduction to perverse sheaves I
14 Mar$\pi$ day
21 MarBruce Fontaine, Cornell UniversityAn introduction to perverse sheaves II
28 MarNo talk
04 AprSpring Break
11 AprNo talk
18 AprMarcelo Aguiar, Cornell UniversityA peek into Lie theory relative to a hyperplane arrangement I
25 AprMarcelo Aguiar, Cornell UniversityA peek into Lie theory relative to a hyperplane arrangement II
02 MayMahdi Asgari, Cornell UniversityThe Langlands $L$-group

Fall 2013

Time and location: Friday 03:30 pm–04:30 pm, Malott Hall 406.

30 AugOrganizational meeting
06 SepYuri Berest, Cornell UniversityDixmier Groups and the Dixmier Conjecture
13 SepNo talk
20 SepNo talk
27 SepGeoffrey Scott, University of MichiganTorus actions on b-symplectic manifolds
04 OctNo talk
10 OctSophus Lie Days, 10–11 Oct
Toshiyuki Kobayashi, IPMU, University of Tokyo
"Universal sounds" of anti-de Sitter manifolds
Time and location: 04:00 pm, Malott Hall 532
11 OctToshiyuki Kobayashi, IPMU, University of TokyoGlobal Geometry and Analysis on Locally pseudo-Riemannian Symmetric Spaces
Time: 02:00 pm
18 OctBruce Fontaine, Cornell UniversityCluster Algebras—Part 1
25 OctBruce Fontaine, Cornell UniversityCluster Algebras—Part 2
01 NovRaúl Gómez, Cornell UniversityTheta lifting of generalized Whittaker models associated with nilpotent orbits I
08 NovRaúl Gómez, Cornell UniversityTheta lifting of generalized Whittaker models associated with nilpotent orbits II
09 NovJoint Symplectic SeminarTime and location: Saturday 9 November, 10:00 am–04:30 pm, Malott Hall 532
15 NovYoshiki Oshima, University of Tokyo and IASDiscrete branching laws for some unitary representations
22 NovYuri Berest, Cornell UniversityRepresentation homology and strong Macdonald conjectures I
29 NovThanksgiving recess
06 DecYuri Berest, Cornell UniversityRepresentation homology and strong Macdonald conjectures II