Principal Investigator: Shrawan Kumar, David A. Vogan, Nolan R. Wallach

This award provides partial support for US-based students and junior researchers attending a conference in May 2008 at the Pacific Institute of Mathematics (PIMS) in Vancouver, B.C. The meeting is devoted to Lie theory and related subjects, including invariant theory, representation theory in several aspects, symplectic geometry, Kac-Moody Lie algebras and structures associated to them such as groups and flag varieties, quantum cohomology of homogeneous spaces, and Dirac cohomology.

This international conference is devoted to topics of current interest that owe much to the work of Bertram Kostant, who is to be honored at the meeting. Many of the conference presentations and much of Kostant's long research career have been devoted to exploring and exploiting symmetries of geometric objects. The Lie groups cited above, named for 19th-century mathematician Sophus Lie, are continuous collections of symmetries, exemplified by the full group of rigid motions of the Euclidean plane, or by the group of all rotations of a three-dimensional sphere. The web site of the conference host, the Pacific Institute of Mathematics, is http://pims.math.ca/, and the web site for this conference is http://pims.math.ca/science/2008/08kostant/.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
0753720
Program Officer
Christopher W. Stark
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2008-06-01
Budget End
2009-05-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$30,000
Indirect Cost
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599