The Lie Theory Workshop series of weekend conferences has been meeting several times a year since 1990.  Most years the NSF supports graduate students and postdoctoral participants, and the institution at which the workshop takes place also provides some support.  Most, but not all, of the workshops take place at West Coast universities.  Each workshop program is determined by the local organizers, and the workshop program itself is organized by a committee currently consisting of Geoff Mason (University of California, Santa Cruz)), Susan  Montgomery (University of Southern California) and Joseph Wolf (University of California at Berkeley).

The purpose of the program is to communicate results and ideas rather than to deliver polished presentations. The program also serves to acquaint graduate students in this area with a range of researchers in Lie theory and representation theory.

The Winter 2011 workshop in the program took place at the Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, February 12 and 13, 2010. Gestur Olafsson and Milen Yakimov, local organizers.

The Spring 2011 workshop in the program took place at the University of California at Riverside, May 21-22. Vyjayanthi Chari, Wee Liang Gan and Jacob Greenstein, local organizers.

The Fall 2011 workshop took place at Berkeley on November 5 and 6.  The emphasis was on harmonic analysis and representations of Lie groups.  Joseph Wolf was the local organizer.

The 2012 workshop schedule is as follows.  Details will be posted as they become available.

    Winter 2012:   Stanford, February 4-5  Workshop web page: http://match.stanford.edu/lieworkshop
                          Emphasis: Quantum Groups and related areas
                          Organizers: Apoorva Khare (khare@stanford.edu)
                                           Daniel Bump (bump@math.stanford.edu)
                                           Anne Schilling (anne@math.ucdavis.edu)    

    Spring 2012:   University of Southern California (USC), May 5-6
                           Workshop web page: http://dornsife.usc.edu/conferences/liehopf
                          Emphasis: Hopf algebras and related areas
                          Organizers: Susan Montgomery (smontgom@math.usc.edu)
                                            Miodrag Iovanov (iovanov@usc.edu)

    Fall 2012: Louisiana State University, October 6-7
                    Emphasis: Representation theory and analysis on homogeneous spaces
                    Organizers: Gestur Olafsson (olafsson@lsu.edu)
                                      Milen Yakimov (yakimov@math.lsu.edu)