Previous Special Year Seminar

Oct
28
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

Derived Equivariant Cohomology of the affine Grassmannian and Bezrukavnikov and Finkelberg’s equivalences
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

This is the third talk in a series of three talks on the derived Satake equivalence. I will give an overview of the article of Bezrukavnikov and Finkelberg which explains how the equivariant derived category of the affine Grassmannian can be...

Oct
21
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

(Equivariant) Cohomology of the affine Grassmannian and Ginzburg’s picture
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

This is the second talk in a series of three talks on the derived Satake. I will give an overview of an article by Ginzburg which laid the foundational ideas for this equivalence.

Oct
20
2020

SL2 Seminar

Representations of GL_2(F_q) in defining characteristic: a number-theorist's perspective
Matthew Emerton
5:00pm|Remote Access

In this talk I hope to explain how the representation theory of $GL_n(F_q)$ (with q being a power of p) in char. p, and also in mixed characteristic $(0,p)$, plays an important role in the theory of Galois representations and the Langlands program...

Oct
14
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

An introduction to affine Grassmanians and the geometric Satake equivalence
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

This is the first talk in a series of three talks towards understanding Bezrukavnikov-Finkelberg's derived geometric Satake equivalence. In this talk, we recall the geometry of equal characteristic affine Grassmannians and some of the ingredients of...

Oct
07
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

Finite groups as algebraic groups in non-defining characteristic
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

We will discuss the conjecture of Broue relating modular representations of finite groups of Lie type in non-defining characteristic to those of normalizers of Levi subgroups, with a focus on $GL_n$. The categories of representations can be related...

Sep
30
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

Finite groups as algebraic groups in defining characteristic
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

We will discuss $p$-local representation theory and conjectures of Broue and Alperin, the latter been inspired by finite groups of Lie type in characteristic $p$. The issue is the extent to which the category of representations can be reconstructed...

Sep
16
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

Broué’s Abelian Defect Group Conjecture II
3:00pm|Remote Access Only

In this second talk about Broué’s Abelian Defect Group Conjecture, we will explain its geometric version in the case of finite groups of Lie type: the equivalence should be induced by the cohomology complex of Deligne-Lusztig varieties. This was...

Sep
09
2020

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

Broué’s Abelian Defect Group Conjecture I
3:00pm|Remote Access Only

This talk will form part of a series of three talks focusing on Broué’s Abelian Defect Group Conjecture, which concerns the modular representation theory of finite groups. We will pay particular attention here to the ‘geometric’ form of the...

Aug
27
2020

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Multi-Output Prediction: Theory and Practice
Inderjit Dhillon
3:00pm|Remote Access Only - see link below

Many challenging problems in modern applications amount to finding relevant results from an enormous output space of potential candidates, for example, finding the best matching product from a large catalog or suggesting related search phrases on a...