Lie Theory and Geometry: The Mathematical Legacy of Bertram Kostant

Month: May 2008

Date: May 19--24

Name: Lie Theory and Geometry: The Mathematical Legacy of Bertram Kostant

Location: Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Vancouver, Canada.

Description

The plan of the conference is to consider recent advances in Lie theory, concentrating on connections with geometry. Among the topics that will receive special attention are: invariant theory, symplectic geometry, representation theory of real Lie groups, Kac-Moody Lie algebras and associated groups and flag varieties, quantum groups, quiver varieties, quantum cohomology of flag varieties, Dirac cohomology and Gelfand-Zeitland theory.

Principal Organizers

Jim Carrell bk08@pims.math.ca and Shrawan Kumar bk08@pims.math.ca.

Principal Speakers

A. Alekseev (Geneva), M. Brion (Grenoble), P. Etingof (MIT), V. Ginzburg (Chicago), I. Gordon (Edinburgh, V. Guillemin (MIT), A. Joseph (Weizmann Inst.), V. Kac (MIT), M. Kashiwara (Kyoto), A. Knutson (UCSD), J. Lepowsky (Rutgers), H. Nakajima (Tokyo), A. Okounkov (Princeton), D. Peterson (Vancouver), K. Reitsch (London), J.-P. Serre (Paris), B. Speh (Cornell), D. Vogan (MIT), N. Wallach (UCSD).

Information

For further information (accomodations etc.), please see the conference website: http://www.pims.math.ca/~dxu/08kostant/. There will be a limited amount of funds available for grad students and post docs. If you would like to apply for support, please contact one of the principal organizers.