Conference on Geometric Methods in Infinite-dimensional Lie theory

March 25 - 29, 2013, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Description

The conference will feature invited talks by senior researchers on topics related to the theme of the first concentration period. There will also be possibilities for junior researchers to present their work in this area.

Schedule

Monday, March 25th, 2013
09:30 to 10:20	Affine Dynkin Diagrams Re-viewed Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin–Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:40	Symplectic Reflection Algebras and Affine Lie Algebras Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:40 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Equivariant K-theory and affine algebras Terry Gannon, University of Alberta Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:50 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Yangians for affine Kac-Moody algebras Nicolas Guay, University of Alberta Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	Locally Affine Lie Algebras Yoji Yoshii, Akita National College of Technology Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
09:30 to 10:20	Prime representations and extensions Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California, Riverside Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:40	The Soergel conjecture: a proof and a counterexample Benjamin Elias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:40 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	The group of points of loop group schemes Philippe Gille, Ecole normale supérieure-Paris Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:50 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Affine MV polytopes and preprojective algebras Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	Weyl modules and subalgebras Ghislain Fourier, University of Cologne Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
09:30 to 10:20	Tensor representations of classical Lie superalgebras at infinity Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:40	Lagrangian subalgebras of classical Lie superalgebras Ivan Dimitrov, Queen's University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:40 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Bounded Unitary Representations of Lie Algebras of Smooth Sections Karl-Hermann Neeb, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:50 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Lie-Poisson structures for gl(infinity) Michael Lau, Université Laval Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	Quantum affine algebra actions on categories Sabin Cautis, University of California Berkeley Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Thursday, March 28th, 2013
09:30 to 10:20	On the Classification of ZN-graded Lie Algebras Olivier Mathieu, Université Lyon 1 and Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:40	A note on the simplicity and the universal covering of some Kac-Moody group Jun Morita, University of Tsukuba Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:40 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Rank 2 symmetric hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras and Hilbert modular forms Kyu-Hwan Lee, University of Connecticut Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:50 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Hecke Algebras and Formal Group Laws Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	Representation for a class of multiloop Lie algebras Yun Gao, York University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Friday, March 29th, 2013
09:30 to 10:20	Entirety of Cuspidal Eisenstein Series on Loop Groups Manish Patnaik, University of Alberta Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:40	A rigidity property of the discrete spectrum of adele groups Hadi Salmasian, University of Ottawa Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:40 to 14:00	Lunch Break