Date/Time : 17 Nov 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #04-04 (Seminar Room 3)
Speaker : Wang Weiqiang, University of Virginia

As a degeneration of affine quantum groups, Yangians quantize current algebras. It is known that truncated shifted Yangians quantize affine Grassmannian slices of type ADE; the latter are Coulomb branches of framed quiver gauge theories, and in type A, they can be identified with nilpotent Slodowy slices. As a degeneration of affine iquantum groups, twisted Yangians quantize twisted current algebras. We explain the Poisson geometry of [truncated shifted] twisted Yangians in terms of fixed point loci of affine Grassmannian slices by Poisson involutions; in split type A, the latter are identified will nipotent Slodowy slices of type BCD. This is joint work with Kang Lu and Alex Weekes.

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Date/Time : 28 Oct 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Wang Weiqiang, University of Virginia/NUS

iQuantum groups arising from quantum symmetric pairs can be viewed as a generalization of Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum groups. Lusztig’s braid group symmetries for quantum groups and their modules have played an important role in understanding structures of quantum groups and applications. In this talk, we will present a construction of relative braid group symmetries for iquantum groups and modules by providing explicit rank one formulas and connection to Lusztig’s construction. This is joint work with Weinan Zhang (Hong Kong).

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Date/Time : 14 Oct 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Lo Chi-Heng, National University of Singapore

In this talk, I will first introduce the closure ordering conjecture for local Arthur packets. Then I will present a proof using the combinatorial structure of Ψ(π) that we studied last week.  I will also discuss two important consequences:

(1) a framework for proving the enhanced Shahidi conjecture for general groups, and
(2) a proof of Vogan’s conjecture on the coincidence of A-packets and ABV-packets of Arthur type for classical groups, under certain assumptions.

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Date/Time : 07 Oct 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Lo Chi-Heng, National University of Singapore

Last week, Jing Quan introduced three operators ui, dual-ui-dual, and partial duals (together with their inverses), which preserve the representations associated to extended multi-segments. Among these six types of operators, half of them raise the “temperedness” of the corresponding local Arthur parameters. We refer to these as the raising operators.

In this talk, I will present three orderings on A-parameters that measure temperedness. I will then show that for any representation π of Arthur type, the set

Ψ(π):={ ψ | π is in Π_ψ }

contains unique elements ψ^{max}(π) and ψ^{min}(π), which are respectively the maximal and minimal members under all of these 3 orderings. Finally, I will discuss several representation theoretic properties of these distinguished members. If time permits, I will introduce the fourth ordering: the closure ordering.

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Date/Time : 03 Oct 2025 14:00
Venue : S16 #04-35
Speaker : Song Linliang, Tongji University

In this talk, we introduce two new diagrammatic monoidal categories—the affine q-web category and the affine q-Schur category—along with their respective cyclotomic quotient categories. We construct diagrammatic integral bases for the Hom-spaces in all these categories. Furthermore, we establish the following isomorphisms, which provide the first diagrammatic presentations of these important algebras: (i) the path algebras of the affine q-web category are isomorphic to R. Green’s affine q-Schur algebras; (ii) the path algebras of the affine q-Schur category are isomorphic to Maksimau-Stroppel’s higher level affine q-Schur algebras; and most significantly, (iii) the path algebras of the cyclotomic q-Schur categories are isomorphic to Dipper–James–Mathas’ cyclotomic q-Schur algebras. This is based on joint projects with Yaolong Shen and Weiqiang Wang.

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Date/Time : 30 Sep 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Chong Jing Quan, National University of Singapore

In this talk we will introduce several operators on extended multi-segments that preserves the associated representations. Using those operators, we will classify the A-packets that contain a fixed representation. We will demonstrate the ideas of the proof using several examples.

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Date/Time : 24 Sep 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #04-04 (Seminar Room 3)
Speaker : Shuichiro Takeda, The University of Osaka

Let V be a quadratic space over a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic 0. The orthogonal group O(V) and the special orthogonal group SO(V) have a unique nontrivial GL_1 -extension called GPin(V) and GSpin(V), respectively. Let W\subseteq V be a subspace of codimension 1. Then there are natural inclusions GPin(W)\subseteq
GPin(V) and GSpin(W)\subseteq GSpin(V). One can then consider the Gan-Gross-Prasad (GGP) periods for GPin and GSpin. In this talk, I will talk about the multiplicity-at-most-one theorem for the local GGP periods for GPin and GSpin. This is a joint work with Melissa Emory.

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Date/Time : 23 Sep 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Chong Jing Quan, National University of Singapore

For classical groups, the explicit construction of local Arthur packets in terms of enhanced Langlands parameter has been studied by a sequence of work of C. Mœglin, B. Xu and H. Atobe. In this talk, we will discuss Atobe’s algorithm for this construction. We will introduce the combinatorial object called extended multi-segments and their associated representations. If time permits, we will talk about several operators on extended multi-segments that preserves the associated representations.

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Date/Time : 16 Sep 2025 16:00
Venue : S17 #05-11 (Seminar Room 5)
Speaker : Lo Chi-Heng, National University of Singapore

Local Arthur packets consist of local components of automorphic representations. In the study of automorphic representations, it is often important to understand the properties of a local representation through the local Arthur packets to which it belongs. However, a local representation may lie in multiple local Arthur packets. This causes difficulty, but also provides extra structure for these kinds of problems. In this series of talks, we will discuss the intersection phenomenon for p-adic symplectic and special odd orthogonal groups. We will then explore several applications, including the closure ordering conjecture for local Arthur packets and Jiang’s conjecture on the upper bounds of wavefront sets (and more).

In the first talk, I will introduce the definition of local Arthur packets and their basic properties, and then sketch a geometric construction of local Arthur packets under certain assumptions

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