Workshop on Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Groups: Structure and Geometry
Overview
Topics of interest include:
- Gauge groups and groups of diffeomorphisms
- Kac-Moody Lie algebras and groups
- Extended affine Lie algebras and groups
- Virasoro algebras and groups
- Automorphisms of finite order and covering algebras
- WZW theory
- Differential and Kahler geometry of groups and their orbits
- Applications to soliton equations and automorphic forms
Speakers:
- B. Allison, University of Alberta
- G. Benkart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- V. Futorny, University of São Paulo
- V. Kac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- S. Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- J-H. Kwon, Seoul University
- T. Larsson, Stockholm University
- O. Mathieu, Lyon CNRS
- K-H. Neeb, Universitãt Darmstadt
- E. Neher, University of Ottawa
- G. Papadopoulo, University of Basel
- S. E. Rao, Tata Institute
- M. Rosso, IRMA, Strasbourg
- A. Rudakov, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
- O. Schiffmann, Yale University
- L. Scott, University of Virginia
- P. Slodowy, Universitãt Hamburg
- C. Teleman, Stanford University
- E. Zelmanov, Yale University
Schedule
| 09:00 to 09:30 |
Registration
Location: |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
An introduction to pseudoalgebras
Victor Kac, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location: |
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Connections on stable bundles
Olivier Mathieu, Université Lyon 1, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), ENS Lyon, University of Lyon Location: |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Twisted K-theory and the Verlinde algebra
C. Teleman, University of Texas |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Tea Break
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| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Fock representations of non-centrally extended diffeomorphism algebras
T. Larsson, Stockholm University Location: |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Loop groups, bundles over elliptic curves and elliptic singularities
P. Slodowy, University of Hamburg |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
On the center of affine Hecke algebras of type A
O. Schiffmann, Yale University |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Frobenius splitting of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces
S. Kumar, University of North Carolina |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Tea Break
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| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Towards classification of integrable modules for Toroidal Lie-Algebras
S. Rao, Tata Institute |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
TBA
E. Zelmanov, Yale University |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Isomorphism of Covering Algebras
B. Allison, University of Alberta |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Lie Algebras BC
G. Benkart, University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Locally finite root systems
E. Neher, University of Ottawa |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Remarkable complexes of representations of Lie superalgebras E(3,6)
A. Rudakov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Tea Break
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| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Witt algebra, Steenrod algebras and non commutative symmetric functions
G. Papadopoulo, University of Basel |
| 09:30 to 10:30 |
Central extensions of infinite-dimensional Lie groups
K-H. Neeb, University of Darmstadt |
| 10:30 to 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 to 12:00 |
TBA
J-H. Kwon, Seoul University |
| 12:00 to 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 to 15:00 |
TBA
L. Scott, University of Virginia |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Tea Break
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| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Categories of modules for Lie algebras with triangular decomposition
V. Futorny, University of S�o Paulo |
| 16:30 to 18:30 |
Cocktail Reception at Fields
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