This year's Distinguished Burton Jones lecture will be given by Professor Dessislava Kochloukova from State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) on May 8th at 4:00 p.m. in Skye Hall 284. Please join us for tea before the lecture at 3:30 p.m. and for the reception afterwards.
Dessislava Kochloukova, State University of Campinas…
Yuri Berest, Cornell University
In 1982, I. G. Macdonald published a series of beautiful combinatorial conjectures related to classical root systems (or equivalently, compact Lie groups). These conjectures were in the focus of research in representation theory and geometry for over 30 years. In the early 1990s,…