Date/Time : 05 Mar 2019 15:00
Venue : S17 #05-12 SR4
Speaker : Alan McLeay , University of Luxembourg

Date/Time:05 Mar 2019 15:00 Venue: S17 #05-12 SR4 Speaker: Alan McLeay, University of Luxembourg Mapping class groups, covers, and braids The mapping class group of a surface is the group of isotopy classes of boundary preserving homeomorphisms of the surface. Given a finite sheeted covering space between surfaces, we may ask what relationship, if any, exists between the two mapping class groups? In joint work with Tyrone Ghaswala we investigate this question for surfaces with non-empty boundary. I will discuss a classical theorem of Birman-Hilden and give new insight into a family of covering spaces related to the Burau representation of braid groups. Add to calendar: 

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Date/Time : 26 Jan 2019 15:00
Venue : S17 #04-04 SR3
Speaker : Hsin-Ku Chen , National Taiwan University

Date/Time:26 Jun 2019 15:00 Venue: S17 #04-04 SR3 Speaker: Hsin-Ku Chen, National Taiwan University Threefolds of Kodaira dimension one We prove that for any smooth complex projective threefold of Kodaira dimension one, the m-th pluricanonical map is birational to the Iitaka fibration for every m >= 5868 and divisible by 12. Add to calendar: 

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Date/Time : 14 Jan 2019 15:00
Venue : S17 #04-05 SR2
Speaker : Bao Huanchen , University of Maryland (College Park)

Date/Time:14 Jan 2019 15:00 Venue: S17 #04-05 SR2 Speaker: Bao Huanchen, University of Maryland (College Park) From Schur-Weyl duality to quantum symmetric pairs The classical Schur-Weyl duality relates the representation theory of general linear Lie algebras and symmetric groups. Drinfeld and Jimbo independently introduced quantum groups in their study of exactly solvable models, which leads to a quantization of the Schur duality relating quantum groups of general linear Lie algebras and Hecke algebras of symmetric groups. In this talk, I will explain the generalization of the (quantized) Schur-Weyl duality to other classical types. This new duality leads to a theory of canonical bases arising from quantum symmetric pairs generalizing Lusztig’s canonical bases on quantum groups. Add to calendar: 

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