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February 08, 2010
Monday, February 08
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Joel Kamnitzer (Toronto)
Title: "Coherent sheaves on quiver varieties and categorification"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: Nakajima defined a family of hyperKahler varieties called quiver varieties and showed that Kac-Moody algebras acted on their homology. I will explain a categorification of this construction, where we consider derived categories of coherent sheaves on quiver varieties. Conjecturally, we obtain a categorical Lie algebra action in the sense of Rouquier and Khovanov-Lauda.