Broadly, the subject of our workshop is “groups and geometry”. A number of rich branches of mathematics lie at the intersection of these two large areas. More specifically, our main themes of interest are: geometric representation theory, group actions on manifolds and varieties, and combinatorial aspects of geometry and representation theory.

We plan on holding a 2-day weekend workshop with 4 to 5 talks per day. We will invite speakers and participants from different Ontario universities and other regional institutions. There will be talks by faculty, post-docs, and senior graduate students, with emphasis on a high level of mathematical and communicative quality.

The workshop is also an informal celebration of Allen Knutson's 40th birthday. We hope and intendfor the workshop to reflect Allen's wide-ranging mathematical interests which span all of the above-mentioned themes of the workshop

INVITED SPEAKERS

Sergey Arkhipov (Toronto)
Chris Brav (Toronto)
Allen Knutson (Cornell)
Mikhail Mazin (Toronto)

Nicholas Proudfoot (Oregon)
Michael Roth (Queens)
Alistair Savage (Ottawa)
Michael Wong (McGill)

Schedule

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
9:30-10:00	Morning Coffee
10:00-11:00	Cup product of line bundles on complete flag varieties Michael Roth (Queen’s University)
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Equivariant map algebras Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa)
12:30-2:30	Lunch Break
2:30-3:15	Smaller non-commutative resolutions of rank varieties Chris Brav (University of Toronto)
3:15-3:45	Coffee Break
3:45-4:45	Modules over the quantum group and coherent sheaves. The singular block case. Sergey Arkhipov (University of Toronto)
4:45-6:00	Free time
6:00 onwards	Banquet

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:30-9:00	Morning Coffee
9:00-9:45	Wonderful Compactifications and Moduli of Principal Bundles Michael Lennox Wong (McGill University)
9:45-10:15	Coffee Break
10:15-11:15	Goresky-MacPherson duality and deformations of Koszul algebras Nicholas Proudfoot (University of Oregon)
11:15-1:00	Lunch Break
1:00-1:45	Geometric Theory of Parshin’s Residues Mikhail Mazin (University of Toronto)
1:45-2:00	Coffee Break
2:00-3:00	Frobenius splitting and juggling patterns Allen Knutson (Cornell University)
End of Conference

Final List of Participants

Full Name	University Name
Adibhatla, Rajender	Carleton University
Arkhipov, Sergey	University of Toronto
Bailey, Michael	University of Toronto
Bayegan, Darius	McMaster University
Bertiger, Anna	Cornell University
Brav, Christopher	University of Toronto
Breton, Sacha	McMaster University
Chipalkatti, Jaydeep	University of Manitoba
Dewitt, Barry	McMaster University
Fisher, Jonathan	University of Toronto
Fok, Chi-Kwong	Cornell University
Fontaine, Bruce	University of Toronto
Franz, Matthias	University of Western Ontario
Goldberg, Timothy	Cornell University
Goldin, Rebecca	George Mason University
Gracia-Saz, Alfonso	University of Toronto
Grieve, Nathan	Queen's University
Gualtieri, Marco	University of Toronto
Guay-Paquet, Mathieu	University of Waterloo
Hannigan-Daley, Brad	University of Toronto
Hannigan-Daley, Brad	University of Waterloo
Harada, Megumi	McMaster University
Holm, Tara	Cornell University
Hurtubise, Jacques	Université de Montréal
Jeffrey, Lisa	University of Toronto
Kamnitzer, Joel	University of Toronto
Khan, Waseem	CIIT
Knutson, Allen	Cornell University
Kolhatkar, Ratnadha	Ottawa University
Krepski, Derek	McMaster University
Landweber, Gregory	Bard College
Lau, Michael	University of Windsor
Li-Bland, David	University of Toronto
Mahmood, Fatima	Cornell University
Martens, Johan	Unicamp
Matsumura, Tomoo	Cornell University
Mautner, Carl	University of Texas at Austin
Mazin, Mikhail	University of Toronto
Meinrenken, Eckhard	University of Toronto
Moraru, Ruxandra	University of Waterloo
Morgan, Stephen	University of Toronto
Moseley, Daniel	University of Oregon
Muller, Gregory	Cornell University
Neher, Erhard	University of Ottawa
Préville-Ratelle, Louis-François	Université du Québec à Montréal
Proudfoot, Nicholas	University of Oregon
Purbhoo, Kevin	University of Waterloo
Pym, Brent	University of Toronto
Rajchgot, Jenna	Cornell University
Roth, Michael	Queen's University
Salmasian, Hadi	University of Ottawa
Savage, Alistair	University of Ottawa
Selick, Paul	University of Toronto
Sjamaar, Reyer	Cornell University
Smith, Kathleen	University of Toronto
Snider, Michelle	Cornell University
Sun, Jie	University of Ottawa
Sutar, Kavita	Northeastern University
Thind, Jaimal	Queen's University
Thomas, Hugh	University of New Brunswick
Vargas, Yannic	Université du Québec à Montréal
Watts, Jordan	University of Toronto
Wong, Michael Lennox	McGill University
Zhang, Lucy Liuxuan	University of Toronto

TO BE CONFIRMED

Abe, Hiraku	McMaster University
Akram, Javed	Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad
Leung, Ho Hon	Cornell University
Majd, Nayereh	University of Tehran
Olusa, Olufemi	University of Ibadan

Application for travel support for Students and PDf's
Funding application closed as of August 15

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

October 3-4, 2009 SOUTHERN ONTARIO GROUPS AND GEOMETRY to be held at the Fields Institute

Schedule

Final List of Participants

October 3-4, 2009
SOUTHERN ONTARIO GROUPS AND GEOMETRY
to be held at the Fields Institute