Algebraic Groups and Representation Theory

A Conference in Memory of Tonny A. Springer

January 4-9, 2013


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The Hong Kong University of
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Department of Mathematics
The University of Hong Kong


Abstracts of Talks
  • Roman Bezrukavnikov
    Title: Springer representation and coherent sheaves
    Abstract
  • Michel Brion
    Title: On commutative subgroups of algebraic groups
    Abstract
  • Dan Ciubotaru
    Title: Spin projective representations of Weyl groups and the Dirac operator of graded Hecke algebras
    Abstract
  • Arjeh Cohen
    Title: Riemann surface models and regular maps
    Abstract
  • Baohua Fu
    Title: Geometry of nilpotent orbits: generic singularities and special pieces
    Abstract
  • Xuhua He
    Title: Wonderful compactifications and loop groups
    Abstract
  • Anthony Henderson
    Title: Geometric Satake, Springer correspondence, and small representations
    Abstract
  • Daniel Juteau
    Title: Modular Springer representations, intersection forms and parity sheaves
    Abstract
  • Wilberd van der Kallen
    Title: Cohomological finite generation
    Abstract
  • Syu Kato
    Title: A homological study of Green polynomials
    Abstract
  • Hanspeter Kraft
    Title: The Automorphism Group of Affine $n$-Space
    Abstract
  • Gus Lehrer
    Title: The Brauer category and second fundamental theorem of invariant theory
    Abstract
  • Eduard Looijenga
    Title: Cohomological amplitude of moduli spaces of curves
    Abstract
  • George Lusztig
    Title: Springer's work on unipotent conjugacy classes and Weyl group representations
    Abstract
  • Ngaiming Mok
    Title: Recovering $G/P$ and its distinguished subvarieties from minimal rational curves
    Abstract
  • Eric Opdam
    Title: Spectral transfer maps for affine Hecke algebras
    Abstract
  • Vladimir Popov
    Title: Rational functions on semisimple Lie algebras and the Gelfand--Kirillov conjecture
    Abstract
  • Mark Reeder
    Title: Regular elements in Weyl groups, graded Lie algebras and p-adic groups
    Abstract
  • Toshiaki Shoji
    Title: Character sheaves on the exotic symmetric space
    Abstract
  • Eric Sommers
    Title: A duality for transverse slices between special nilpotent orbits
    Abstract
  • Nanhua Xi
    Title: Module Structure on Invariant Jacobians
    Abstract
  • Jiu-Kang Yu
    Title: On Vinberg theory and Moy-Prasad theory
    Abstract
  • Zhiwei Yun
    Title: Affine Springer fibers and the rational Cherednik algebra
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