AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 2, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups
Room 328, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
James E. Humphreys, University of Massachusetts jeh@math.umass.edu
Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts mirkovic@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Traces of intertwiners for quantum groups and difference equations.
  Pavel I Etingof*, MIT
  Alexander N Varchenko, UNC at Chapel Hill
  (947-17-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Integral properties of the modular functor.
  Alexander Jr. Kirillov*, SUNY Stony Brook
  (947-14-153)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Construction of the Uhlenbeck Space.
  Vladimir Baranovsky*, University of Chicago
  (947-14-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Verma modules for $\hat{gl_n}$ and Hall algebras.
  Alexander G Kuznetsov*, Independent Moscow University
  (947-22-151)

Saturday October 2, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups
Room 328, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
James E. Humphreys, University of Massachusetts jeh@math.umass.edu
Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts mirkovic@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Geometry and unrestricted representations.
  Dmitriy Rumynin*, University of Warwick
  (947-17-46)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Structure of some Springer fibers of $\mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathbb{C})$ and relations to Kazhdan-Lusztig theory.
  Francis Y. Fung*, Odyssey Research Associates
  (947-14-121)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohomology of tilting modules and equivariant K-theory of the nilpotent cone.
  Viktor Ostrik*, Independent Moscow University
  (947-17-54)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Affine Springer Fibers and Cartans of Loop Groups.
  David D Ben-Zvi*, University of Chicago
  (947-14-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Character sheaves on Drinfeld's spaces.
  Dennis Gaitsgory*, Harvard University
  (947-14-133)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups
Room 328, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
James E. Humphreys, University of Massachusetts jeh@math.umass.edu
Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts mirkovic@math.umass.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conjugacy classes in parabolic subgroups of general linear groups.
  Scott H Murray*, University of Chicago
  (947-20-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Certain "abstract" homomorphisms of Chevalley groups.
  Lucy Lifschitz*, University of Virginia
  Andrei S Rapinchuk, University of Virginia
  (947-20-115)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A homological interpretation of Jantzen's sum formula.
  Upendra B Kulkarni*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (947-20-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some new applications of endomorphism algebras to representation theory.
  Brian Parshall*, University of Virginia
  (947-20-149)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups
Room 328, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
James E. Humphreys, University of Massachusetts jeh@math.umass.edu
Ivan Mirkovic, University of Massachusetts mirkovic@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Polar varieties in classical Lie algebras.
  Mikhail Grinberg*, MIT
  (947-22-48)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Principal nilpotent pairs in a semisimple Lie algebra.
  Victor Ginzburg*, University of Chicago
  (947-17-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized character sums associated to regular prehomogeneous vector spaces over finite fields.
  David Kazhdan, Harvard University
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
  (947-14-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Normalized intertwining operators and crystals.
  Alexander Braverman*, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology
  (947-22-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion.

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