BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260314T032227EDT-4008ofUCwv@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260314T072227Z DESCRIPTION:one-day workshop on March 18th at LACIM (5th floor of UQaM's PK building). \n\nEveryone is welcome to attend. The rough subject of the wo rkshop is representation theory of double-affine quantum groups\, Cheredni k algebras and Coulomb branches. Talks will start at 10h00 in room PK-5115 . The afternoon talks will take place in room PK-5675. \n\n \n\n\n\nMartin Vrabec (Université de Montréal\, 10h00—11h00)\n\nTitle: Generalisations o f Macdonald–Ruijsenaars operators in external fields and a subalgebra of D AHA\n\nAbstract \n\nFirstly\, I will present a construction of commuting e lements in the double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) of type GL_n whose actio n on symmetric polynomials leads to generalisations of Van Diejen's Macdon ald–Ruijsenaars system with an external Morse potential and other new inte grable q-difference operators. Secondly\, as another application of this c onstruction\, I will discuss a subalgebra A inside the DAHA that flatly de forms the crossed product of the symmetric group with the image of the Dri nfeld–Jimbo quantum group U_q(gl_n) under its q-oscillator representation. The algebra A reduces in the q = 1 limit to the degree zero part of the c orresponding rational Cherednik algebra. The degree zero part is a flat de formation of the crossed product of the symmetric group with a quotient of the universal enveloping algebra of gl_n\, and it is related to generalis ed Howe duality and to the Calogero–Moser integrable system in an external harmonic potential. This talk is based on a joint paper with Misha Feigin and a current work in progress.\n\n\n\nVasily Krylov (Harvard\, 11h00—12h 00) –\n\nTitle: Graded traces on quantized Coulomb branches\n\nAbstract \n \nHiggs and Coulomb branches of quiver gauge theories form two important f amilies of Poisson varieties that are expected to be exchanged under so-ca lled 3D mirror symmetry. The representation theory of quantized Coulomb br anches is deeply connected with the enumerative geometry of Higgs branches . One important approach to studying modules over quantized Coulomb branch es is by analyzing their graded traces. Graded traces generalize the notio n of characters and are closely related to the q-characters introduced by Frenkel and Reshetikhin. Any graded trace defines a solution of the D-modu le of graded traces introduced by Kamnitzer\, McBreen\, and Proudfoot.\n\n  \n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss techniques that allow one to explicitly compute characters and graded traces of certain modules over quantized Co ulomb branches\, using the D-module of graded traces combined with analyti c methods. Time permitting\, I will explain how some of these results natu rally appear on the Higgs side\, leading to an explicit description of the D-module of graded traces for a quantized Coulomb branch via the geometry of the Higgs branch. We prove these results for ADE quivers and formulate some conjectures in the general case. Talk is based on joint works with D inkins\, Karpov\, Klyuev\, and Lance.\n\n\n\nDuncan Laurie (University of Edinburgh\, 13h30—14h30)\n\nTitle: Representations of quantum toroidal alg ebras\n\nAbstract \n\nQuantum toroidal algebras are the ‘double affine’ ob jects within the quantum world. Their principal module category Ô is the n atural toroidal analogue of the finite-dimensional modules for quantum aff ine algebras.\n\n \n\nAfter introducing these algebras and discussing thei r structure\, we shall outline some recent results on their representation theory. These include a well-defined tensor product and monoidal structur e on Ô\, compatible with both Drinfeld polynomials and q-characters\, and a meromorphic braiding by R-matrices.\n\n \n\nTime permitting\, I’ll brief ly mention work in progress with Théo Pinet exhibiting special subcategori es of Ô as monoidal categorifications of cluster algebras in type A.\n\n\n \nIlya Dumanski (MIT\, 14h30—15h30) –\n\nTitle: Pursuing equivariant sheav es on the double affine Grassmannian\n\nAbstract \n\nI will explain how to view equivariant coherent sheaves on the affine Grassmannian as sheaves o n an affine Grassmannian slice with a certain additional structure. Then I will speculate how one could try to generalize this to non-finite types\, using the coproduct for Coulomb branches\, which is to be defined. I will explain the relation of this construction to the category of Poisson shea ves\, and discuss the perverse coherent t-structure on this category.\n\n \n\nAlex Weekes (Université de Sherbrooke\, 16h00—17h00)\n\nTitle: Twisted Yangians and fixed points in the affine Grassmannian \n\nAbstract\n\n \n \nYangians are infinite-dimensional quantum groups\, which arise naturally as quantizations of enveloping algebras of current algebras.  Via the qua ntum duality principle\, they can also be viewed as quantizations of loop groups.  This ultimately leads to a variety of other connections\, includi ng to affine Grassmannian slices and to the theory of Coulomb branches.\n \n \n\nTwisted Yangians are closely related algebras\, which have been stu died essentially the introduction of Yangians themselves\, and which relat e to symmetric pairs.  A natural question is whether they can also be view ed as quantizations of some geometry related to loop groups.  In this talk \, I will discuss joint work with Kang Lu and Weiqiang Wang where we addre ss this question.  We also discuss relations to affine Grassmannian slices \, potential connections to Coulomb branches\, and potential generalizatio ns such as to affine types.\n DTSTART:20260310T190000Z DTEND:20260310T190000Z SUMMARY:Double affine day 2026 URL:/mathstat/channels/event/double-affine-day-2026-37 1868 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR