Université de Montréal

WORKSHOP ON ALGEBRAIC TRANSFORMATION GROUPS

June 10 - 14, 2002

Organizers

Abraham Broer (Montreal)

Jim Carrell (UBC)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, June 10

08:30 Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee (Room 6254)

09:00 - 10:30 Friedrich Knop

"On Noether's and Weyl's theorem for finite groups in

positive characteristic"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

11:00 - 12:30 Laurent Manivel

"Series of Lie groups and of homogeneous varieties"

14:00 - 15:30 Michel Brion

"A geometric approach to Standard Monomial Theory"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

16:00 - 17:30 Allen Knutson

"Schubert calculus on Grassmannians via puzzles: ordinary, equivariant, K-theory, and quantum"

17:30 Reception (Room 6254)

TUESDAY, June 11

09:00 - 10:30 Mark Haiman

TBA

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

11:00 - 12:30 Shrawan Kumar

"Some new formulations and generalizations of n! conjecture to arbitrary groups"

14:00 - 15:30 Hiraku Nakajima

"Quiver varieties and finite dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

16:00 - 17:30 Ivan Mirkovic

TBA

WEDNESDAY, June 12

09:00 - 10:30 Dale Peterson

"Quantum Cohomology of Flag Varieties"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

11:00 - 12:30 Chris Woodward

"Quantum products of Schubert classes"

FREE AFTERNOON

THURSDAY, June 13

09:00 - 10:30 Alexis Tchoudjem

"Cohomology of line bundles on the wonderful

compactification of a semi-simple adjoint group"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

11:00 - 12:30 Bert Kostant

"A branching law for subgroups fixed by an involution and

a noncompact analogue of Borel-Weil"

14:00 - 15:30 Victor Ginzburg

"Symplectic reflection algebras in geometry and

representation theory"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

16:00 - 17:30 Gert Heckman

"The moduli space of quartic curves"

FRIDAY, June 14

09:00 - 10:30 Maxim Vybornov

"On quiver varieties and affine Grassmannians of type A"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

11:00 - 12:30 Eckhard Meinrenken

"The basic gerbe of a compact simple Lie group"

14:00 - 15:30 Aaron Bertram

"Localization and Gromov-Witten Invariants of

Grassmannians"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break (Room 6254)

16:00 - 17:30 TBA