Lie Theory and Geometry: The Mathematical Legacy of Bertram Kostant

One Hour Talks

Anton Alekseev, University of Geneva
Title: The Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture and Drinfeld's associators

Michel Brion, University of Grenoble
Title: Counting points of homogeneous varieties over finite fields

Pavel Etingof, MIT
Title: Parabolic induction and restriction functors for rational Cherednik algebras and their applications

Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
Title: Quantization of del Pezzo surfaces

Iain Gordon, University of Edinburgh
Title: The Shapiro-Shapiro Conjecture and Calogero-Moser space

Victor Guillemin, MIT
Title: Asymptotic properties of spectral measures

J.-S. Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Title: Dirac operators and Lie algebra cohomologies

Anthony Joseph, Weizmann Institute
Title: The Borcherds Character Formula, the Littelmann Path Model and n homology

Victor Kac, MIT
Title: Classification of simple linearly compact generalized Jordan superalgebras

Allen Knutson, UCSD
Title: The totally nonnegative Grassmannian and juggling patterns

James Lepowsky, Rutgers
Title: Tensor product theory for vertex operator algebra modules, and applications

Hiraku Nakajima, Kyoto University
Title: Quiver varieties and double affine Grassmannian

Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
Title: The mystical powers of eta

Dale Peterson, UBC
Title: The Toda lattice and small quantum cohomology of homogeneous spaces

Konstanze Rietsch, King's College
Title: A mirror symmetric approach to Kostant's quantum Toda lattice

Jean-Pierre Serre, College de France
Title: Lie Groups and Prime Numbers

Birgit Speh, Cornell
Title: TBA

David Vogan, MIT
Title: The orbit method for reductive groups

Nolan Wallach, UCSD
Title: Hidden subgroup problems in quantum computing.

45 Minute Talks

Ivan Losev, Belarusian State University
Title: Quantized symplectic actions and W-algebras

Alessandra Pantano, University of California at Irvine
Title: Unitarity of Nonspherical Minimal Principal Series

Nicholas Ressayre, Université Montpellier 2
Title: Restricting representations to a reductive subgroup.

Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa
Title: Moduli spaces of sheaves and the boson-fermion correspondence

Wai Ling Yee, University of Windsor
Title: Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and Signature Computations