Abstract
This talk will focus on Springer’s work in several areas including classification of unipotent conjugacy classes, Springer’s conjecture on Green functions as trigonometric sums, Springer fibres and Springer’s representations of Weyl groups and Springer’s work on exceptional representations of Weyl groups.
About the speaker
Prof George Lusztig received his PhD from Princeton University in 1971. He was Professor at the University of Warwick from 1974 to 1977. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1978, and was appointed Norbert Wiener Professor from 1999 to 2009. He is currently the Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics at MIT.
Prof Lusztig’s research interests focus on geometric representation theory and algebraic groups. He has received numerous research distinctions, including the Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Cole Prize in Algebra and the Brouwer Medal of the Dutch Mathematical Society. He was honored with the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the AMS in 2008, for "entirely reshaping representation theory, and in the process changing much of mathematics".
Prof Lusztig was conferred Honorary Professor at the University of Cordoba in 1989, and the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris VII in 1997. He was awarded the Romanian National Order "Faithful Service" Grade of Commander in 2003, was named Honorary Member of the Mathematics Institute of the Romanian Academy in 2005, and received the Diploma of Academic Merit by the Romanian Academy in 2007. Prof Lusztig is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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