BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Representation theory of symplectic singularities
DTSTART:20140512T151500
DTEND:20140512T170000
DTSTAMP:20261002T022048Z
UID:2bd06b53245f66d0bb8f0eff8d41de4c7e92dce781618c7018b703cc
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Ben Webster\, University of Virginia\nSince they were introduc
 ed about 2 decades ago\, symplectic singularities have shown themselves to
  be a remarkable branch of algebraic geometry.  They are much nicer in ma
 ny ways than arbitrary singularities\, but still have a lot of interesting
  nooks and crannies.\nI'll talk about these varieties from a representatio
 n theorist's perspective.  This might sound like a strange direction\, bu
 t remember\, any interesting symplectic structure is likely to be the clas
 sical limit of an equally interesting non-commutative structure\, whose re
 presentation theory we can study. While this field is still in its infancy
 \, it includes a lot of well-known examples like universal enveloping alge
 bras and Cherednik algebras\, and has led a lot of interesting places\, in
 cluding to categorified knot invariants and a conjectured duality between 
 pairs of symplectic singularities.  I'll give a taste of these results an
 d try to indicate some interesting future directions.
LOCATION:MA A331 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=MA+A331
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR