Infinite dimensional Lie theory: algebra, geometry and combinatorics - A CRM-Fields Institute Workshop

August 21-24, 2012

Program

 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Ivan Dimitrov
(Queen's University)
Inversion sets of permutations and the Littlewood-Richardson cone
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Hugh Thomas
(University of New Brunswick)
Quotient-closed subcategories of representations of a quiver
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Ibrahim Assem
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Cluster automorphisms
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Peter Tingley
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Various constructions of Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Dinakar Muthiah
(Brown University)
Affine PBW bases and MV polytopes in rank 2
Abstract

 

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Pierre Mathieu
(Université Laval)
(Super)Virasoro algebra and Jack (super)polynomials
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Andrew Linshaw
(Brandeis University)
Invariant subalgebras of vertex algebras
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Jethro van Ekeren
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Modularity of trace functions for non rational vertex (super)algebras
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Bojko Bakalov
(North Carolina State University)
W-constraints for simple singularities
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Alex Feingold
(Binghamton University)
Applications of vertex operator constructions and character theory to branching problems for level-1 representations of affine Kac--Moody algebras: $D_4^{(1)}$ to $G_2^{(1)}$ and $E_6^{(1)}$ to $F_4^{(1)}$
Abstract

 

Thursday, August 23, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Dennis Gaitsgory
(Harvard University)
Outline of the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture for GL(2)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Sam Gunningham
(Northwestern University)
Convolution of character sheaves and character theory for surfaces
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Christopher Dodd
(University of Toronto)
Filtered D-modules on Quiver varieties and categorical lie algebra actions
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Ivan Mirkovic
(University of Massachusetts)
Koszul duality in modular representation theory
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Nicolas Guay
(University of Alberta)
Yangians for affine Kac-Moody algebras
Abstract

 

Friday, August 24, 2012

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Hadi Salmasian
(University of Ottawa)
The Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction and Frechet Lie supergroups with Trotter property
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Shifra Reif
(University of Michigan)
Denominator identities for Lie superalgebras
Abstract

12:00
Closure of the workshop