General Information: This is the webpage for the POSTECH Learning Seminar in representation theory from Fall 2026. The topic is Kazhdan-Lusztig theory.
Organizers: Valentin Buciumas, buciumas at postech dot ac dot kr.
Time and Place: Mondays 3:30pm-5:30pm in Room 404 (math building) unless otherwise noted.
Topic: Kazhdan-Lusztig theory. More precisely Hecke algebras, Kazhdan-Lusztig basis and polynomials, as well as generalizations and connections to (mostly) representation theory, geometry and combinatorics.
Syllabus: syllabus (somewhat vague at the moment)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time and place | References, notes etc. |
| September 7 | Valentin Buciumas | Introduction | 3:30pm-5:30pm, Room 404 | |
| September 14 | Coxeter Systems, the Bruhat Order, and the Iwahori--Hecke Algebra | 3:30pm-5:30pm, Room 404 | ||
| September 21 | The Kazhdan-Lusztig Basis and Polynomials | 3:30pm-5:30pm, Room 404 | ||
| September 28 | Category 𝒪 and the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture | 3:30pm-5:30pm, Room 404 | ||
| October 5 |