Algebraic Groups and Invariant Theory

 

 

August 30th – September 4th, 2009

 

 

The conference will take place at the Centro Stefano Franscini, a conference center near Ascona in Ticino, Switzerland.

 

The key topics of the conference are W-algebras, invariants of subalgebras, nilpotent orbits, and geometric representation theory.

 

 

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There will be three mini-courses:

 

V. Ginzburg: Quivers in representation theory and geometry

Chicago

A. Joseph: Slices for biparabolic adjoint actions

Weizmann Institute

A. Premet: Generalised Gelfand-Graev modules and finite W-algebras

Manchester

 

Speakers:

Stephen Donkin, Michel Duflo, Florence Fauquant-Millet,

Sasha Kleshchev, Bertram Kostant, Hanspeter Kraft, Peter Littelmann,

George McNinch, Jean-Pierre Serre, Kari Vilonen, Nolan Wallach.

 

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See poster at AGIT.pdf

 

Organizers

 

Karin Baur

baur [at] math.ethz.ch

Donna Testerman

donna.testerman[at]epfl.ch

Alexander Premet

sasha [at] ma.man.ac.uk

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Poster design: Alberto Lopez