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Workshop on Representation Theory and Analysis on Locally Symmetric Spaces

Mar
08
2018

Workshop on Representation Theory and Analysis on Locally Symmetric Spaces

Arithmetic theta series
Stephan Kudla
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101
Abstract: In recent joint work with Jan Bruinier, Ben Howard, Michael Rapoport and Tonghai Yang, we proved that a certain generating series for the classes of arithmetic divisors on a regular integral model M of a Shimura variety for a unitary group...
Mar
08
2018

Workshop on Representation Theory and Analysis on Locally Symmetric Spaces

Euler classes transgressions and Eistenstein cohomology of $GL(N)$
Nicolas Bergeron
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101
Abstract: In work-in-progress with Pierre Charollois, Luis Garcia and Akshay Venkatesh we give a new construction of some Eisenstein classes for $GL_N (Z)$ that were first considered by Nori and Sczech. The starting point of this construction is a...
Mar
09
2018

Workshop on Representation Theory and Analysis on Locally Symmetric Spaces

Ax-Schanuel for Shimura Varieties
Jacob Tsimerman
11:30am|Simonyi Hall 101
Abstract: (joint with N.Mok, J.Pila) Shimura varieties (S) are uniformized by symmetric spaces (H), and the uniformization map Pi:H --> S is quite transcendental. Understanding the interaction of this map with the two algebraic structures is of...
Mar
09
2018

Workshop on Representation Theory and Analysis on Locally Symmetric Spaces

Endoscopy and cohomology growth on unitary groups
Simon Marshall
1:30pm

Abstract: One of the principles of the endoscopic classification is that if an automorphic representation of a classical group is non-tempered at any place, then it should arise as a transfer from an endoscopic subgroup. One also knows that any...

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Mar
29
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Towards canonical bases in homology of symplectic resolutions
2:00pm|Virtual

I will describe a program aimed at understanding numerics of representations of quantized symplectic resolutions in positive characteristic. A key ingredient is a generalization of the action of the affine braid group on the derived category of...

Mar
29
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Smith theory and Langlands functoriality
3:30pm|Virtual

According to Langlands’ conjectures, algebraic automorphic forms should be parametrized by global Galois representations, and smooth representations of $p$-adic groups should be parametrized by local Galois representations. These parametrizations...

Mar
29
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Modular perverse sheaves on symplectic singularities
5:00pm|Virtual

A symplectic singularity has a natural stratification by Poisson leaves, which are symplectic, hence even-dimensional.  Perverse sheaves constructible with respect to this stratification are semisimple if the coefficients are in characteristic zero...

Mar
30
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

From Weyl modules to simple modules in many small steps
9:00am|Virtual

Let G be a semisimple group over an algebraically closed field of large characteristic. There are two important types of rational representations of G: the Weyl modules and the simple modules. We will explain how to go from the first type to the...

Mar
30
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Flag manifolds over semifields I
10:30am|Virtual

The study of totally positive matrices, i.e., matrices with positive minors, dates back to 1930s. The theory was generalised by Lusztig to arbitrary split reductive groups using canonical bases, and has significant impacts on the theory of cluster...

Mar
30
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Springer, Procesi and Cherednik
12:00pm|Virtual

The talk is based on a joint work with Pablo Boixeda Alvarez. We study equivariant Borel-Moore homology of certain affine Springer fibers and relate them to global sections of suitable vector bundles arising from Procesi bundles on Q-factorial...

Mar
31
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Webs in type C
2:00pm|Virtual

In 1997, Kuperberg gave a generators-and-relations presentation of the monoidal category Fund, whose objects are tensor products of fundamental representations, for all rank 2 lie algebras. The general case has been an open problem since. It was...

Mar
31
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

New isolated symplectic singularities with trivial fundamental group
3:30pm|Virtual

Abstract: In 2000, Arnaud Beauville introduced the notion of symplectic singularities and raised the question of classifying isolated symplectic singularities with trivial local fundamental group: the latter condition is meant to avoid the numerous...

Mar
31
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Rationality properties of complex characters of finite groups
5:00pm|Virtual

What can one say about the fields of values of irreducible complex characters $\chi$ of a given finite group $G$? In particular when $G$ is a finite (quasi)simple group? What about the ``McKay situation'', i.e. when the degree of $\chi$ is coprime...

Apr
01
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

A Hecke action on the principal block of a semisimple algebraic group
9:00am|Virtual

I will explain the construction of an action of the Hecke category on the principal block of representations of a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic, obtained in joint work with Roman...

Apr
01
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Approximating tilting modules
10:30am|Virtual

Using the arithmetics of quantum numbers we construct some “approximations” of tilting modules for reductive algebraic groups that might be useful for understanding the generational patterns of tilting characters conjectured by Lusztig and...

Apr
01
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Stokes phenomena, Poisson-Lie groups and quantum groups
12:00pm|Virtual

Let $G$ be a complex reductive group, $G^*$ its dual Poisson-Lie group, and $g$ the Lie algebra of $G$. $G$-valued Stokes phenomena were exploited by P. Boalch to linearise the Poisson structure on $G^*$. I will explain how $Ug$-valued Stokes...

Apr
02
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Representations of p-adic groups
2:00pm|Virtual

The Langlands program is a far-reaching collection of conjectures that relate different areas of mathematics including number theory and representation theory. A fundamental problem on the representation theory side of the local Langlands program is...

Apr
02
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Lax 2-tensor constructions
3:30pm|Virtual

In joint work with Andy Manion, we required a generalization of the tensor product of 2-representations in order to reconstruct the 2-dimensional part of Lipshitz-Oszvath-Szabo’s bordered Heegaard-Floer theory. I will discuss this and possible...

Apr
02
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Double covers of tori and the local Langlands correspondence
5:00pm|Virtual

Given a maximal torus $T$ of a connected reductive group $G$ over a local field $F$, there does not exist a canonical embedding of the L-group of $T$ into the L-group of $G$. Generalizing work of Adams and Vogan in the case $F=R$, we will construct...

Apr
03
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Towards derived Satake equivalence for symmetric varieties
9:00am|Virtual

In an ongoing project of D. Ben-Zvi, Y. Sakellaridis and A. Venkatesh, the authors propose a conjectural generalization of the derived Satake equivalence for complex reductive groups to spherical varieties. I will describe a program aimed at...

Apr
03
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

Flag manifolds over semifields II
10:30am|Virtual

The study of totally positive matrices, i.e., matrices with positive minors, dates back to 1930s. The theory was generalised by Lusztig to arbitrary split reductive groups using canonical bases, and has significant impacts on the theory of cluster...

Apr
03
2021

Workshop on Representation Theory and Geometry

The Drinfeld--Sokolov reduction of admissible representations of affine Lie algebras
Gurbir Dhillon
12:00pm|Virtual

Let $g$ be a semisimple Lie algebra. The affine W-algebra associated to $g$ is a topological algebra which quantizes the algebraic loop space of the Kostant slice. It is constructed as a quantum Hamiltonian (alias quantum Drinfeld--Sokolov)...

Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods in Symplectic Topology

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Oct
10
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Symplectic invariants – some progress and some problems
10:00am|Wolfensohn Hall
This talk will describe some symplectic invariants and discuss recent progress in understanding them, probably mostly concentrating on questions of symplectic embeddings.
Oct
10
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

The free surface water wave problem as a Hamiltonian system
Walter Craig
11:30am|Wolfensohn Hall
The Euler equations for the dynamics of a fluid domain with a free surface can be formulated as a Hamiltonian system in an infinite dimensional phase space. The Hamiltonian has been derived by Zakharov, and the Hamiltonian vector field evokes the...
Oct
10
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Existence of transverse foliations to identity isotopies on surfaces and applications
Patrice Le Calvez
2:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall

Let $I= (f_t)_{t \in [0,1]}$ be an identity isotopy on an oriented surface $M$ and denote by $Cont(I)$ the set of points $z \in M$ whose trajectory $I(z)$ is a contractible loop of $M$. A recent result of Olivier Jaulent asserts that there exists an...

Oct
10
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

A symplectic proof of a theorem of Franks
Ely Kerman
4:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall
A celebrated theorem in two-dimensional dynamics due to John Franks asserts that every area preserving homeomorphism of the sphere has either two or infinitely many periodic points. In this talk I will describe a new Floer theoretic proof of this...
Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Convergence of discounted solutions of the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation
9:00am|Wolfensohn Hall

This is a joint work with Renato Iturriaga.

We consider a Hamiltonian $H: \mathbf R^n \times \mathbf R \to \mathbf R, \ (x,p) \mapsto H(x,p)$ that is $Z^n$ periodic in the first variable $x$, and convex superlinear in the second variable $p$.

For $...

Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Conservative homoclinic bifurcations and the structure of a stochastic sea of the standard map
Anton Gorodetski
9:00am|Wolfensohn Hall
Consider a generic one-parameter unfolding of a homoclinic tangency of an area preserving surface diffeomorphism. We show that for many parameters (residual subset in an open set approaching the critical value) the corresponding diffeomorphism has a...
Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

On Kolmogorov’s conjecture and Hausdorff dimension of oscillatory motions for certain restricted three body problems
10:15am|Wolfensohn Hall
Consider the classical Newtonian 3-body problem, namely, bodies are mutually attracted by the Newton graviation. Call motion oscillatory if as time tends to infinity limsup of maximal distance among the bodies is infinite, while liminf is finite. In...
Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Action-index relations for Hamiltonian dynamical systems
11:30am|Wolfensohn Hall
In this talk we discuss Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms with finitely many periodic orbits. We show that, under suitable additional hypotheses on the ambient manifold, the actions and mean indexes of periodic orbits of such a diffeomorphism must satisfy...
Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Resonance identities and closed characteristics on compact star-shaped hypersurfaces in R2n
Yiming Long
2:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall
Recently two new resonance identities on closed characteristics on every compact star-shaped hypersurface $\Sigma$ in $R^{2n}$ are proved, when the number of geometrically distinct closed characteristics on $\Sigma$ is finite. These identities...
Oct
11
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Generic symplectic diffeomorphisms and partial hyperbolicity
Jairo Bochi
4:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall
I will talk about the following theorem: If $f$ is a $C^1$ generic symplectic diffeomorphism of a compact manifold then the Oseledets splitting along almost every orbit is partially hyperbolic or trivial; in addition, if $f$ is not Anosov then all...
Oct
12
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Using pseudo-holomorphic curves to approximate zero entropy Hamiltonian systems by integrable ones
10:15am|Wolfensohn Hall
Katok has asked the following informal question: In low dimensions are all conservative dynamical systems with zero topological entropy a limit of integrable systems? In this talk I will discuss an approach to this question that uses pseudo...
Oct
12
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Regularity of weak KAM
Chong-Qing Cheng
11:30am|Wolfensohn Hall
In this talk, I will show some modulus of continuity of weak KAM solutions exhibited by Hamiltonian with multi-degrees of freedom.
Oct
12
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

KAM-Tori accumulating a Diophantine elliptic equilibrium point
2:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall
We prove that an elliptic equilibrium point with Diophantine frequencies for an analytic Hamiltonian system is always accumulated by invariant Lagnrangian tori. Generically the set of such tori has positive measure, but if this is always the case is...