Wed Nov 4 · 4pm

Lie Groups Seminar: Eric Sommers (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

MIT · Building 2 142 · Cambridge · Cambridge

Eric Sommers of the University of Massachusetts Amherst speaks at MIT's Lie Groups Seminar, the mathematics department's meeting on Lie theory and representation theory. Sommers studies nilpotent orbits in semisimple Lie algebras, a subject that links the geometry of these algebras to Springer theory, Weyl group representations and the combinatorics of root systems.