Programme of the conference Geometric Aspects of Representation Theory 22 - 26 July 2002, Stephen Roberts Theatre, University of Sydney Last updated: Monday 22 July 17:45 Sunday ====== 14.00 - 18.30 Open House at Gus Lehrer's Home Monday ====== 09.30 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 11.00 Michel Brion Stable reductive varieties Coffee, Tea 11.30 - 12.30 Viktor Ostrik Coherent sheaves on the nilpotent cone and dominant weights Lunch 15.00 - 16.00 Robert McPherson Why didn't Leray discover perverse sheaves? Coffee, Tea 16.30 - 17.30 Peter Donovan Bounding the Cartan invariants Tuesday ======= 09.30 - 10.30 Victor Ginzburg Symplectic reflection algebras and geometry Coffee, Tea 11.00 - 12.00 Ezra Getzler A Darboux theorem in the formal calculus of variations 12.15 - 12.45 Siye Wu Hermitian symmetric space, Shilov boundary, and Maslov index Lunch 15.00 - 16.00 Andrei Zelevinsky Cluster algebras of finite type: part I Coffee, Tea 16.30 - 17.30 Sergey Fomin Cluster algebras of finite type: part II Wednesday ========= 09.30 - 10.30 Mark Goresky The topological trace formula Coffee, Tea 11.00 - 12.00 Amnon Neeman A non-commutative generalisation of Thomason's localisation theorem 12.15 - 13.15 Ian Grojnowski Ramanujan sums and the Strong MacDonald conjecture Free afternoon Thursday ======== 09.30 - 10.30 Rui Bin Zhang Quantum supergroups and link invariants Coffee, Tea 11.00 - 12.00 Dennis Gaitsgory A certain category of representations of a Kac-Moody algebra at the critical level 12.15 - 12.45 Peter Bouwknegt D-branes on group manifolds Lunch 15.00 - 16.00 Robert MacPherson Springer representations through equivariant cohomology Coffee, Tea 16.30 - 17.30 Mark Haiman Cores, quivers and n! conjectures Conference dinner: East Ocean Restaurant 421 Sussex street Chinatown Haymarket at 7.00 pm Friday ====== 09.30 - 10.30 Mark Goresky Chern classes of modular varieties Coffee, Tea 11.00 - 12.00 Victor Ginzburg Representations of rational Cherednik algebras 12.15 - 12.45 Jie Du Linear quivers and the geometric setting of quantum GLn Lunch 14.30 - 15.30 Claudio Procesi Roots of polynomials and cohomology Coffee, Tea 16.00 - 17.00 Hanspeter Kraft Geometric Analogues to the First Fundamental Theorems