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speaker : Anna Romanov (University of New South Wales, Australia)
date and time : Jun. 30 (Tue), 2026, 10:30-12:00 (Korea time, UTC+9)
title: Lusztig-Vogan categories and a categorial approach to real reductive groups
abstract:
Soergel bimodules were introduced to tackle hard questions about the representation theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras. Similar (but harder) questions also exist about the representation theory of real reductive Lie groups. Can a Soergel-esque approach be taken in this world? I’ve been thinking about this question for many years. In this talk, I’ll tell you about my perspective. More specifically, I’ll introduce a collection of module categories over Soergel bimodules which encode information about the admissible representation theory of a real reductive group, with a focus on examples.
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speaker : Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut, USA)
date and time : Jul. 2 (Thu), 2026, 10:30-12:00 (Korea time, UTC+9)
title: Auto-correlation functions of Sato-Tate distributions and identities of symplectic characters
abstract:
The Sato--Tate distributions for genus 2 curves describe the statistics of the numbers of rational points on these curves. In this talk, we explicitly compute the autocorrelation functions of Sato--Tate distributions for genus 2 curves as sums of irreducible characters of symplectic groups. Our computations yield families of identities involving irreducible characters of the symplectic groups Sp(2m) for all m, which are of independent interest. The proofs use combinatorial objects, in particular crystals. This is a joint work with Se-jin Oh.
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speaker : Geordie Williamson (University of Sydney, Australia)
date and time : Jul. 6 (Mon), 2026, 10:30-12:00 (Korea time, UTC+9)
title: Can we describe canonical bases as the solutions of optimization problems?
abstract:
Canonical bases (e.g. of representations of quantum groups, of quantum groups themselves, of Hecke algebras, and of their representations) are mysterious and fundamental objects. Their definition typically involves the quantum parameter q in a critical way, via some form of "bar invariance" or "self-duality". Typically, their definition is elementary and combinatorial, and yet they have many deep properties — e.g. positivity and connections to representation theory or geometry. In the story I would like to tell one inverts the picture: one asks for the “simplest” or “smallest” basis which has positive structure constants. Remarkably, in many small examples, there is a unique solution and one recovers the canonical basis (often after specialising q->1) in an elementary way. This is typically not the case in large examples though, and the failure is tied to subtle geometry / representation theoretic behaviour. I would also like to advertise this problem as a place where Reinforcement Learning methods might find an interesting application (this was the original motivation for this project, but has not yet been pursued). This is joint work with Tom Goertzen (https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18894).
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