Reading group

Braid group actions on derived categories

I am currently co-organizing with Ben Davison a reading group on braid group actions on derived categories.

Time: Friday, 15.00-17.00 UK time (90 minute talk + up to 30 min for questions/discussion)
Location: Zoom
Plan: here

The talks:

25 Sep: Braid group actions via spherical twists (Tomasz)
2 Oct: Examples (Ben)
9 Oct: McKay correspondence, resolutions of Kleinian singularities and Slodowy slices (Filip)
16 Oct: Foundations of geometric representation theory (Sam)
23 Oct: Construction of braid group actions (Pavel)
30 Oct: Localization in positive characteristic (Dmitriy): 1,2,3
6 Nov: Description of the action as convolution with integral kernels (Tomasz)
13 Nov: DG-schemes and relation to Kleinian singularities (Ben)
20 Nov: Noncommutative Springer resolution & application to representation theory (David)
27 Nov: Background on quiver varieties (Patrick)
4 Dec: Nakajima's Uq(g)-action (Sebastian)
11 Dec: Geometric categorification (Qingyuan)
18 Dec: Braid group actions from categorical actions (Alisa)
8 Jan: The construction and some proof
15 Jan: The affine braid group action