Joint Seminar

Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics
Joint Seminar — Spring 2006

Organizers: Mark Haiman and Kolya Reshetikhin
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Time and place: Wednesdays 4:00-6:00pm, 939 Evans

Course Control Number: 55215

Subject matter: Current research and special topics in representation theory, geometry and combinatorics and their interactions.

Calendar:

January
18	--	No seminar
25	Tathagata Basak (UCB)	Coxeter diagram for a complex hyperbolic reflection group and the bimonster
February
1	Ben Webster (UCB)	Computations in Khovanov-Rozansky homology
8	--	No seminar
15	Alexei Borodin (Cal Tech)	Periodic Schur process and cylindric partitions
22	Joel Kamnitzer (AIM/MIT)	Topology of real moduli space and coboundary Lie bialgebras
March
1	Constantin Teleman (Cambridge)	The structure of two-dimensional topological field theories
8	Jeff Brown (UCB)	An Introduction to Gromov-Witten theory: III
15	Rinat Kedem (Illinois)	Fusion products, Kostka polynomials and fermionic formulas
22	Melissa Liu (Northwestern)	Yang-Mills connections on nonorientable surfaces
29	--	No seminar (spring recess)
April
5	--	No seminar
12	Weiqiang Wang (Virginia)	A new class of double affine Hecke algebras
19	4-5: Lauren Williams (UCB) 5-6: Mariusz Wodzicki (UCB)	Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process Differential operators, zero-dimensional schemes, Hilbert schemes
26	Laura Geatti (UCB)	Equivariant Riemann domains over complexified symmetric spaces
May
3	--	No seminar (RTG workshop)
10	4-5: Joe Wolf (UCB) 5-5:45 Vera Serganova (UCB)	Spherical Functions on Euclidean Space Hermitian symmetric pairs and differental operators in Artinian algebras