PIMS Geometry, Algebra and Physics Seminar

Organized by Steve Rayan and Curtis Wendlandt


 

Schedule (2025-2026)

Talks are normally held on Thursdays in the late afternoon, and can usually be attended virtually via Zoom (including those talks held in-person at the University of Saskatchewan) using the following information:

Meeting ID Passcode Link
993 2067 2006 qUSaskGAP Here

The seminar is intended to be informal and to have a component accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying algebra, geometry, or mathematical physics. To support this goal, the seminar is held in an hour and fifteen minute time slot. More information concerning each specific talk in the series is given below.

Date/Location

 Speaker

Title and Abstract

Thursday, March 12th

5-6:15PM CST

PHYSIC 130

 

Siwei Xu 

The Ohio State University

Affine Yangians and quantum toroidal algebras in type A

The main objects of my talk are the affine Yangian and the quantum toroidal algebra of type A with two deformation parameters, as introduced in the work of Bershtein and Tsymbaliuk (2019). These algebras first appeared in Maulik and Okounkov’s 2012 work, where they were realized in a purely geometric form through the equivariant cohomology of quiver varieties. In this talk, I construct an explicit functor from an appropriate category of representations of the affine Yangian associated with \(\mathfrak{sl}(mn)\) to that of the quantum toroidal algebra associated with \(\mathfrak{sl}(m)\) for all positive integers m and n, which extends the construction of Gautam and Toledano Laredo (2016).

Thursday, March 26th

5-6:15PM CST

PHYSIC 130

Chris Raymond

University of Hamburg

Title TBA

Abstract TBA

 


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