Conference - Lie groups: structure, actions and representations
11-14 January 2012, Bochum, Germany
Dedicated to Joseph A. Wolf on the occasion of his 75th Birthday. (Poster of the conference)
Accommodation
Hotel: Marriott - Courtyard Bochum Stadtpark, Klinikstrasse 43-45, 44791 Bochum (map)
Arriving at "Bochum Hbf" (main station) you can reach the hotel by public transport: The bus stop is next to the main entrance of Bochum Hbf. Take the Bus 354 (Direction: "Zillertal") or 394 (Direction: "Keplerweg-Wendeschleife") to the stop "Tierpark". Cross the street, turn left and walk about 100 m to the Hotel.
The ticket for public transport (if it is not included e.g. in your DB ticket for the train) is "Einzelticket - Preisstufe A" (2,30 Euro).
Conference center
Location: Zentrum für IT-Sicherheit, Technologie-Quartier Bochum, Lise-Meitner-Allee 4, 44801 Bochum (map)
A conference bus will take participants from the hotel to the conference center and back.
The conference center can also be reached by bus and subway: Take the Bus 354 (Direction: "Munscheider Str./Franziskusstr.") or 394 (Direction: "Narzissenstr./Franziskusstr.") to "Bochum Hbf". It is also possible to go by tram 308/318 to "Bochum Hbf". Ask at the Hotel for the way to the nearest tram station. The tram connection is at frequent intervals and available in the evening. At "Bochum Hbf" take the Subway U35 (Direction: "Hustadt/Ruhr-Universität") to the stop "Hustadt". A map for the walk from the subway station to the conference center is available here.
Timetables are available here and here.
The ticket for public transport is "Einzelticket - Preisstufe A" (2,30 Euro for 1 ride), "4er-Ticket - Preisstufe A" (8,40 Euro for 4 rides), or "Tagesticket - Preisstufe A" (5,50 Euro for one day).
Organizing Committee
| Alan Huckleberry | Ruhr-Universität Bochum/ Jacobs University |
| Gerhard Knieper | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Ivan Penkov | Jacobs University |
| Gregg Zuckerman | Yale University |
Programm
The conference will take place from Wednesday, 11.January, through Saturday, 14.January 2012. (On the final day there will only be talks in the morning.) (Schedule as pdf)
The period for each talk is one hour which should consist of a 45 minute talk, a brief time for questions and a short break. The daily schedule is:
| 9:15-10:15 | Lecture 1 |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee |
| 10:45-11:45 | Lecture 2 |
| 11:45-12:45 | Lecture 3 |
| 12:45-14:30 | Break for lunch and discussions |
| 14:30-15:30 | Lecture 4 |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00-17:00 | Lecture 5 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Lecture 6 |
Talks on Wednesday
| Lecture 1 (9:15-10:15) | David Vogan (MIT) | Weyl group representations, nilpotent orbits and the orbit method |
| Lecture 2 (10:45-11:45) | Bend Ørsted (Aarhus) | Analysis on flag manifolds and Sobolev inequalities |
| Lecture 3 (11:45-12:45) | Friedrich Knop (Erlangen) | Multiplicity free Hamiltonian actions |
| Lecture 4 (14:30-15:30) | Wilfried Schmid (Harvard) | Polarizations of Harish-Chandra modules |
| Lecture 5 (16:00-17:00) | Dmitri Akhiezer (Moscow) | Weakly symmetric spaces and equivariant real structures |
| Lecture 6 (17:00-18:00) | Steve Rosenberg (Boston University) | Characteristic classes for some infinite dimensional Lie groups |
Talks on Thursday
| Lecture 1 (9:15-10:15) | Roger Howe (Yale) | Multiplicities in tensor algebras: Iterated Pieri algebras and Hibi rings |
| Lecture 2 (10:45-11:45) | Ernest Vinberg (Moscow) | Triads and short SO(3)-subgroups in compact groups. |
| Lecture 3 (11:45-12:45) | Bertram Kostant (MIT) | The center of U(n) and a construction of Wolf-Lipscom |
| Lecture 4 (14:30-15:30) | C. T. C. Wall (Liverpool) | Plucker formulae for space curves |
| Lecture 5 (16:00-17:00) | Gestur Olaffson (LSU) | Limits of spherical representations are not always spherical |
| Lecture 6 (17:00-18:00) | Toshio Oshima (Tokyo University) | Ordinary differential equations and Kac-Moody root systems |
Talks on Friday
| Lecture 1 (9:15-10:15) | Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard) | Category theory in semi-classical analysis |
| Lecture 2 (10:45-11:45) | Juan Tirao (Cordoba) | Spherical functions, orthogonal polynomials and the complex projective space |
| Lecture 3 (11:45-12:45) | Oksana Yakimova (Jena) | Maximal reductive stabilizers in coadjoint actions |
| Lecture 4 (14:30-15:30) | Toshi Kobayashi (Tokyo) | Stable Spectrum for non-Riemannian locally symmetric spaces |
| Lecture 5 (16:00-17:00) | Isabel Dotti (Cordoba) | The Killing-Yano equation on Lie groups |
| Lecture 6 (17:00-18:00) | Roger Zierau (Oklahoma State) | Associated cycles of Harish-Chandra modules |
Talks on Saturday
| Lecture 1 (9:15-10:15) | Karl-Hermann Neeb (Erlangen) | Unitary holomorphic induction for infinite dimensional groups |
| Lecture 2 (10:45-11:45) | Nolan Wallach (UC San Diego) | Quantum entanglement and geometric invariant theory |
| Lecture 3 (11:45-12:45) | Mike Eastwood (Australian National University) | Twistor theory and the harmonic hull |
Confirmed participants
| Ilka Agricola | Marburg |
| Dmitri Ahkiezer | Moscow |
| Dmitri Alekseevsky | Brno |
| Alexander Alldridge | Köln |
| Andrea Altomani | Luxembourg |
| Ralph Bremigan | Ball State |
| Werner Ballmann | Bonn |
| Oliver Baues | Karsruhe |
| Leticia Barchini | Oklahoma State |
| Leonardo Biliotti | Parma |
| Elizabeth Dan-Cohen | LSU |
| Vicente Cortes | Hamburg |
| Stephanie Cupit | Bochum |
| Ivan Dimitrov | Queens University, Kingston |
| Isabel Dotti | Cordoba |
| Alexander Dvorsky | Miami |
| Mike Eastwood | ANU |
| Jan Emonds | Paderborn |
| Peter Fiebig | Erlangen |
| Anna Fino | Torino |
| Ghislain Fourier | Köln |
| Thomas Friedrich | Berlin and Marburg |
| Laura Geatti | Rome |
| Allesandro Ghigi | Milano |
| Bruce Gilligan | Regina |
| Wolfgang Globke | Karlsruhe |
| Helge Glöckner | Paderborn |
| Claudio Gorodski | Sao Paulo |
| Daniel Greb | Freiburg |
| Simone Gutt | Brussels |
| Keizo Hasegawa | Niigata |
| Peter Heinzner | Bochum |
| Joachim Hilgert | Paderborn |
| Roger Howe | Yale |
| Alan Huckleberry | Bochum and Jacobs |
| Andrea Iannuzzi | Rome |
| Hideyuki Ishi | Nagoya |
| Troels Johansen | Kiel |
| Matthias Kalus | Bochum |
| Hisashi Kasuya | Tokyo |
| Wilhelm Kaup | Tübingen |
| Will Kirwin | Köln |
| Toshi Kobayashi | Tokyo |
| Bert Kostant | MIT |
| Gerhard Knieper | Bochum |
| Friedrich Knop | Erlangen |
| Peter Littelmann | Köln |
| Jean-Jacques Loeb | Anger |
| George Marinescu | Köln |
| Todor Milev | Prague |
| Christian Miebach | Calais |
| Cédric Moll | Metz |
| Jan Möllers | Aarhus |
| Tommy Murphy | Brussels |
| Mauro Nacinovich | Rome |
| Karl-Hermann Neeb | Erlangen |
| Hieu Duc Nguyen | Rowan |
| Gestur Olafsson | LSU |
| Acadiy Onishchik | Moscow |
| Bent Orsted | Aarhus |
| Toshi Oshima | Tokyo |
| Wolfgang Palzer | Köln |
| Dmitri Panyushev | Moscow and Bonn |
| Aprameyan Parthasarathy | Marburg |
| Sylvie Paycha | Potsdam |
| Tobias Pecher | Paderborn |
| Ivan Penkov | Jacobs |
| Michaela Pilca | Regensburg |
| Annett Püttmann | Bochum |
| Thomas Püttmann | Bochum |
| Pablo Ramacher | Marburg |
| Margit Rösler | Clausthal |
| Steve Rosenberg | Boston Univ. |
| Wilfried Schmid | Harvard |
| Benjamin Schwarz | Paderborn |
| Gerry Schwarz | Brandeis |
| Zain Shaikh | Köln |
| Wolfgang Soergel | Freiburg |
| Petr Somberg | Prague |
| Vladimir Soucek | Prague |
| Florian Spinnler | Louvain |
| Shlomo Sternberg | Harvard |
| Robert Szöke | Budapest |
| Octavio Taboado | Marburg |
| Juan Tirao | Cordoba |
| Gudlaugur Thorbergsson | Köln |
| Guillaume Tomasini | Strasbourg |
| Valdemar Tsanov | Bochum |
| Ernest Vinberg | Moscow |
| David Vogan | MIT |
| C.T.C. Wall | Liverpool |
| Dorothy Wallace | Dartmouth |
| Nolan Wallach | San Diego |
| Tobias Weich | Marburg |
| Jörg Winkelmann | Bochum |
| J.A. Wolf | Berkeley |
| Tilmann Wurzbacher | Bochum |
| Milen Yakimov | LSU |
| Oksana Yakimova | Jena |
| Genkai Zhang | Göteburg |
| Roger Zierau | Oklahoma State |
| Martin Zirnbauer | Köln |
| Gregg Zuckerman | Yale |