Tamas Hausel (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) will be speaking in the algebra seminar. We will go out for lunch after the talk---all are welcome to join! When: 12-1pm Friday October 24 Where: Carslaw 175 Title: Ringifying intersection cohomology Abstract: Although there is no natural ring structure on intersection cohomology, in the case of affine and finite Schubert varieties also at their singular points, partly conjecturally, we ringify intersection cohomology using our big algebra approach to geometric representation theory of compact and complex Lie groups.