Schedule of talks to be presented in the special session on

Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups

Organizers: Donald R. King ( Northeastern University)

Alfred G. Noël ( University of Massachusetts Boston).

 

Saturday October 5 2002:

Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups I

8:30 - 8:50 : Anthony W. Knapp*, aknapp@math.sunysb.edu

Some tiny unitary representations of indefinite orthogonal groups.

9:00 - 9:20: David A. Vogan*, dav@math.mit.edu

Associated varieties and signatures of Hermitian forms.

9:30 - 9:50: Susana Salamanca*, ssalaman@NMSU.Edu

On strictly small representations

10:00 - 10:20: Monica Nevins*, mnevins@uottawa.ca

Admissible nilpotent orbits of $p$-adic split exceptional groups.

10:30 - 10:50: Thomas Pietraho*, tpietrah@bowdoin.edu

Components of the Springer Fiber and Domino Tableaux.

 

Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups II

2:30 - 2:50 : Pramod N Achar*, pramod@math.uchicago.edu

An order-reversing duality map for conjugacy classes in Lusztig's canonical quotient.

3:00 - 3:30: Eric N Sommers*, esommers@math.umass.edu

Ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra.

4:00 - 4:20: Ranee K Brylinski*, rkb@math.psu.edu

Dixmier algebras quantizing classical complex nilpotent orbits.

4:30 - 4:50: Dragomir Z. Djokovic*, djokovic@uwaterloo.ca

Michael Litvinov

The closure ordering of nilpotent orbits of the complex symmetric pair $(SO_{p+q},SO_p\times SO_q)$.

5:00 - 5:20: Alexander Dvorsky*, dvorsky@math.miami.edu

Siddhartha Sahi

Jordan algebras and spherical low-rank representations.

 

 

Sunday October 6 2002

Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups III

8:30 - 8:50: Donald R. King*, donking@neu.edu

Complexity of Nilpotent Orbits and the Kostant-Sekiguchi Correspondence.

9:00 - 9:20: Peter E Trapa*, ptrapa@math.harvard.edu

Triangularity results for characteristic cycles.

9:30 - 9:50: Alina Marian, marian@math.harvard.edu

On the real moment map and its applications to the Kostant-Sekiguchi and Matsuki correspondences

10:00 - 10:20: Bertram Kostant, kostant@math.mit.edu

Geometric Quantization as Classical Mechanics in 2 Dimensions Higher and the Construction of the Exceptional Lie Groups.