Working Geometry Seminar
Fall 2008
Tuesday at 2:00-3:30 pm in Milner 317

Parabolic geometry, homogeneous vector bundles and the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolution.


August 26
J.M. Landsberg
Introduction and Overview.

September 2
C. Robles
Sheaves, sheaf cohomology, higher direct images.

September 9
J.M. Landsberg
G/P: examples and structure of the tangent space.

September 16
A. Boralevi
Homogeneous vector bundles on G/P, p-modules, examples.

September 22 & 30
(Sep 22 is a Monday. We will meet in Milner 216 from 2-3 o'clock.)
C. Robles
Affine Weyl group action & Hasse diagrams.

October 7
L. Oeding
Cohomology of irreducible homogeneous vector bundles, the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, examples.

October 14, 21
A. Boralevi
Quivers and the cohomology of homogeneous, (not nec. irreducible) vector bundles.

October 28
A. Cap (U. of Vienna)
Invariant Differential operators and homomorphisms of induced modules.

In this talk I will outline the duality between invariant differential operators on a homogeneous space and homomorphisms of certain induced modules. If the homogeneous space is a generalized flag manifold and one looks at bundles induced by irreducible representations, then the resulting induced modules are generalized Verma modules. I will discuss how the concept of infinitesimal character leads to strong restrictions on homomorphisms between such modules.


November 4
A. Cap (U. of Vienna)
Introduction to BGG sequences.

In this talk, I will discuss the general construction of BGG sequences for parabolic geometries, starting from the algebraic background related to Kostant's version of the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem. If time permits, I will sketch the relation of the adjoint BGG sequence to infinitesimal automorphisms and deformations of parabolic geometries.


November 11, 18
A. Boralevi
Quivers and the cohomology of homogeneous, (not nec. irreducible) vector bundles, con't.

November 25
No seminar. (Thanksgiving.)

December 2
J.M. Landsberg
(Generalized) Verma modules.

Past Working Geometry Seminars:
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
2006-2007
2005-2006