Time: Friday 1:45 – 3:00pm.
Place: 507 Math Building.
References:

• The P=W conjecture for GLn.
• P=W via H2.
• Perverse filtrations and Fourier transforms.
• P=W phenomena in algebraic and enumerative geometry.
• Two proofs of the P=W conjecture.
• etc
  

Organizers: Tommaso Botta, Hanlin Cai, Andrés Ibáñez Núñez, and Yoonjoo Kim.

Scheduled talks:

Date	Speaker	Topic	Note
Jan 24	Tommaso Botta	Overview of the P = W conjecture
Jan 31	Yoonjoo Kim	Mixed Hodge structures	pdf
Feb 7		Character varieties and the curious hard Lefschetz theorem
Feb 13*	Amal Mattoo	Perverse sheaves I (consturctible sheaves, perverse sheaves, and the six-functor formalism)
Feb 21	Patrick Lei	Perverse sheaves II (the decomposition theorem, relative hard Lefschetz, etc.)
Feb 28	Sofia Wood	Higgs bundles I
Mar 7		?
Mar 14	Michael Thaddeus	Higgs bundles II
Mar 21	(Spring recess)
Mar 28	Hanlin Cai	Ngo's support theorem
Apr 4		Maulik-Shen's proof I (vanishing cycles)
Apr 11		Maulik-Shen's proof II (strong perversity of Chern classes)
Apr 18		Maulik-Shen's proof III (global Springer theory and the parabolic support theorem)
Apr 25		Maulik-Shen-Yin's proof I
May 2		Maulik-Shen-Yin's proof II
May 9		Maulik-Shen-Yin's proof III