| Upcoming Seminars | 
    
     
      | TBA | 
    
     
      | Past Seminars | 
    
     
      February 4 
        Monday | 
      Michael Brion, Grenoble 
        Structure of (possibly non-linear) Algebraic Groups, Part 1 | 
    
     
      February 8 
        Friday | 
      Michael Brion, Grenoble 
        Structure of (possibly non-linear) Algebraic Groups, Part 2 | 
    
     
      February 11 
        Monday  | 
      Nikita Karpenko (Université Pierre et Marie 
        Curie) 
        Incompressible varieties | 
    
     
      March 5 
        Tuesday | 
      Erhard Neher (Ottawa) 
        Invariant bilinear forms of algebras given by faithfully flat descent | 
    
     
      March 12, 1:30p.m. 
         
        Tuesday | 
       
         Detlev Hoffmann (Technische Universität Dortmund) 
          Bilinear forms, differential forms and Milnor K-theory under field 
          extensions   
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      March 14, 3:00p.m. 
        Thursday  | 
      Kirill Zainoulline (Ottawa)  
        Formal group laws, Hecke algebras and Oriented cohomology theories 
        I  
        (This talk is part of the Geometric Representation Theory Seminar) | 
    
     
      March 15, 3:30-4:00p.m. 
        Friday  | 
       
         Kirill Zainoulline (Ottawa)  
          Formal group laws, Hecke algebras and Oriented cohomology theories 
          II  
          (This talk is part of the Geometric Representation Theory Seminar)  
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      March 15, 4:00-4:30p.m. 
        Friday  | 
      Alexander Neshitov (Ottawa) 
        Oriented cohomology of algebraic groups | 
    
     
      April 2, 3:30p.m. 
         
        Tuesday | 
      Olivier Mathieu (Lyon) 
        A global version of Grozman's Theorem | 
    
     
      April 9, 3:30p.m. 
        Tuesday | 
      Vladimir Chernousov (Alberta) 
        On conjugacy of Cartan subalgebras in Lie tori | 
    
     
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         April 16, 3:30p.m. 
          Tuesday  
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         Kirill Zainoulline (Ottawa) 
          Exceptional collections of line bundles on projective homogeneous 
          varieties 
           
          
          The existence question for full exceptional collections in the bounded 
            derived category of coherent sheaves of a smooth projective variety 
            X goes back to the foundational results of Beilinson and Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand 
            when X is the projective space. The works of Kapranov in 80's suggested 
            that the structure of projective homogeneous variety on X should imply 
            the existence of full exceptional collections. We construct new examples 
            of exceptional collections of line bundles on the variety of Borel 
            subgroups of a split semisimple linear algebraic group G of rank 2 
            over a field. We exhibit exceptional collections of the expected length 
            for Dynkin types A2 and B2=C2 and prove that no such collection exists 
            for type G2. This settles the question of the existence of full exceptional 
            collections of line bundles on projective homogeneous G-varieties 
            for split linear algebraic groups G of rank at most 2.  
          This is a report on the joint paper with A.Ananyevskiy, A.Auel and 
            S.Garibaldi. 
         
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         April 23, 3:30p.m. 
          Tuesday  
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      Baptiste Calmès (Université 
        d'Artois) 
        Equivariant oriented cohomology theories  |