UChicago Student Representation Theory Seminar (Fall 2016)

This is a student learning seminar at the UChicago math department. The seminar covers topics relevant to recent developments in representation theory.
Organizers: Ana Balibanu, Sergei Sagatov, and Jonathan Wang.

Meeting Time: Wednesday 2:30-3:30 pm
Location: Eckhart 203
Please contact one of the organizers to join the mailing list.

Schedule of Talks

The topic for the Fall 2016 quarter is affine Grassmannians and the geometric Satake equivalence. We will mainly be following these notes of Xinwen Zhu.

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
Wednesday, October 5	Zhiyuan Ding	Affine Grassmannian and their first properties
Wednesday, October 12	Zhiyuan Ding	Beauville-Laszlo's theorem
Wednesday, October 19	Sergei Sagatov	Determinant line bundle
Wednesday, November 9	Sergei Sagatov	Jet and loop groups
Wednesday, November 16	Sergei Sagatov	Schubert cells
Wednesday, November 30	Jonathan Wang	Factorizable Grassmannian, convolution and fusion products, geometric Satake