12:30 pm Tuesday, October 23, 2012
First Cut: Symplectic Resolutions by Travis Schedler (UT Austin) in 9.166
A symplectic resolution is a resolution of a singular (algebraic or complex analytic) variety by a smooth symplectic one. Recently, their study has attracted broad interest, encapsulating and generalizing representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras, finite subgroups of SL(2,C) (or equivalently Spin(3,R)), and appearing in fields ranging from algebraic and symplectic geometry to mathematical physics. In this talk, I will introduce symplectic resolutions from a complex algebraic point of view and their main examples, their applications to representation theory, and some recent conjectures on their general structure. Submitted by
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