SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

April 1-2, 2011 SOUTHERN ONTARIO GROUPS AND GEOMETRY MEETING to be held at the Fields Institute (map) Organizing Committee: Megumi Harada (McMaster University), Joel Kamnitzer (University of Toronto), Kevin Purbhoo (University of Waterloo)

OVERVIEW

Broadly, the subject of our workshop is “groups and geometry”. A number of rich branches of mathematics lie at the intersection of these two large areas. More specifically, our main themes of interest are: geometric representation theory, group actions on manifolds and varieties, and combinatorial aspects of geometry and representation theory.

We plan on holding a workshop with four to five talks per day.Currently the draft schedule is for three talks on Friday afternoon and a full day on Saturday with five talks. We will invite speakers and participants from different Ontario universities and other regional institutions. There will be talks by faculty, post-docs, and senior graduate students, with emphasis on a high level of mathematical and communicative quality.

Invited Speakers

Jonah Blasiak (University of Michigan)
Bruce Fontaine (University of Toronto)
Jenna Rajchgot (Cornell University)
Ilya Shapiro (University of Windsor)
Greg Smith (Queens University)
David Speyer (University of Michigan)
Mike Zabrocki (York University)

Travel support

Application for travel support for students and postdocs, deadline to apply was February 28, 2011

Schedule

Friday, April 1
1:00 p.m.	On-Site Registration
1:30 p.m.	Mike Zabrocki (York University) k-Schur functions indexed by a maximal rectangle
2:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:00 p.m.	Bruce Fontaine (University of Toronto) Webs and the Affine Grassmannian
4:15 p.m.	David Speyer (University of Michigan) Projected Richardson Varieties
6:00 p.m.	Workshop Dinner at Sky Dragon Restuarant 280 Spadina Ave. (map) *Tickets must be purchased in advance online or onsite before 1:30 p.m. Friday.
Saturday, April 2
9:00 a.m.	Morning Coffee
9:30 a.m.	Jenna Rajchgot (Cornell University) Compatibly split subvarieties of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane
10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.	Greg Smith (Queen's University) Vanishing theorems and equations of embedded varieties
12:00 p.m.	Lunch Break
2:00 p.m.	Ilya Shapiro (University of Waterloo) Characteristic classes from Lie algebra cohomology
3:00 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:30 p.m.	Jonah Blasiak (University of Michigan) A crystal basis for two-row Kronecker

 

Final List of Participants:

Full Name	University Name
Bertiger, Anna	Cornell University
Blasiak, Jonah	University of Michigan
Brown, Andrew	University of Waterloo
Collins, Voula	Cornell University
Fisher, Jonathan	University of Toronto
Fok, Chi-Kwong	Cornell University
Fontaine, Bruce	University of Toronto
Franz, Matthias	University of Western Ontario
Grieve, Nathan	Queen's University
Guay-Paquet, Mathieu	University of Waterloo
Harada, Megumi	McMaster University
Jeffrey, Lisa	University of Toronto
Kamnitzer, Joel	University of Toronto
Karshon, Yael	University of Toronto
Knutson, Allen	Cornell University
Krepski, Derek	McMaster University
Lemay, Joel	University of Ottawa
MacHenry, Trueman	York University
Mahmood, Fatima	Cornell University
Mares, Ben	McMaster University
Morgan, Stephen	University of Toronto
Pabiniak, Milena	Cornell University
Parchimowicz, Michael	McMaster University
Purbhoo, Kevin	University of Waterloo
Pym, Brent	University of Toronto
Rajchgot, Jenna	Cornell University
Rhee, Donguk	University of Waterloo
Selick, Paul	University of Toronto
Shapiro, Ilya	University of Windsor
Sjamaar, Reyer	Cornell University
Smirnov, Ilia	Queen's University
Smith, Gregory	Queen's University
Smith, Kathleen	University of Toronto
Speyer, David	University of Michigan
Teff, Nicholas	University of Iowa
VanHoof, Martin	University of Western Ontario
Watts, Jordan	University of Toronto
Yazinski, Jonathan	McMaster University
Young, Matthew	Stony Brook University
Zabrocki, Mike	York University