THEMATIC PROGRAMS

December 22, 2024

Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and its Applications
September 2000 to January 2001

LECTURES


December 7
Informal Lie Lecture
G. Tudose (Fields Institute)
Combinatorial aspects of the Verlinde algebra

December 5-7
Coxeter Lectures
G. Segal (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
The Idea of Space in String Theory

November 30
Sophus Lie Lecture
G. Zuckerman (Yale University)
Relative integrability of Lie algebra representations

November 29
Sophus Lie Lecture
O. Mathieu (CNRS, Lyon)
Connections on stable bundles

November 28
Sophus Lie Lecture
A. Pianzola (University of Alberta)
Applications of Torsors to affine Kac-Moody algebras

November 27
Informal Lie Lecture
A. Frabetti (UNIL, Lausanne)
Series with non-commutative coefficients and field theory

November 24
Sophus Lie Lecture
K. Liu (UCLA)
Elliptic genera and Kac-Moody Lie algebras

November 23
Informal Lie Lecture
S. Azam (The Fields Institute)
Extended affine root systems and Weyl groups

November 22
Sophus Lie Lecture
O. Smirnov (College of Charleston)
Functorial version of Tits-Kantor-Koecher Construction

November 21
Sophus Lie Lecture
M. Kapranov (University of Toronto)
Vertex algebras and the formal loop space

November 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24
Lie mini-course
D. Harari (ENS, Paris)
Torsors in algebraic geometry

November 17
Sophus Lie Lecture
N. Jing (North Carolina State University)
Realization of Quantum Affine Algebras at Roots of Unity

November 16
Mini-Workshop
C. Dong (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Lectures on Vertex Operator Algebras

November 14
Informal Lie Lecture
A. Duff (The Fields Institute and University of Ottawa)
Derivations of the elementary orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra

November 13
Sophus Lie Lecture
Y. Bahturin (Memorial University)
Group gradings on algebras

November 9
Informal Lie Lecture
Y. Yoshii (The Fields Institute and University of Ottawa)
Extended affine Lie algebras of type $\rm{A}_1$ and Jordan tori

November 7
Sophus Lie Lecture
M. Roitman (MSRI)
A presentation of the lattice VOA in terms of generators and relations

November 2
Informal Lie Lecture
R. Wendt (The Fields Institute and University of Hamburg)
Character formulas for non connected Lie groups and orbital theory for
twisted affine Lie algebras

October 31
Sophus Lie Lecture
P. Gille (CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud)
Cyclicity of central simple agelbras of degree 5

October 30, November 1, 3, 6
Sophus Lie Lecture Series
B. Feigin (Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics)
Coinvariants of representations of affine Lie algebras

October 17
Sophus Lie Lecture
W. Wang (North Carolina State University)
Vertex algebras and cohomology ring structure of Hilbert schemes

October 16
Sophus Lie Lectures
B. Khesin (University of Toronto)
Poisson structures and Hamiltonian systems related to elliptic groups

October 13
Sophus Lie Lectures
B. Khesin (University of Toronto)
Orbits of affine Kac-Moody and elliptic groups

October 10
Lie Informal Lecture
K. Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Simple Lie Color Algebras from Graded Associative Algebras

October 3
Informal Lie Lecture
F. Wagemann (The Fields Institute and University of Nantes)
A two dimensional analogue of the Virasoro algebra

September 19
Informal Lie Lecture
E. Rao (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Generalized Virasoro Operators II

September 12
Informal Lie Lecture
E. Rao (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Generalized Virasoro Operators I