Mathematics Colloquium Wednesday, 9 Aug. 2023, 4 pm ======================= Host: Sudarshan Gurjar Venue: Ramanujan Hall Speaker: Pallav Goyal Affiliation: University of Chicago Title: Almost commuting variety and quantum Hamiltonian reduction Abstract: I'll be talking about the notions of commuting varieties and almost commuting varieties of Lie algebras in Types A and C. Then I'll quantize these notions and discuss their applications to the representation theory of rational Cherednik algebras via Hamiltonian reduction.