Anne Dranowski (University of Southern California) is speaking in the Algebra Seminar this week. We will go out for lunch after the talk. When: Friday 18 August, 12-1pm Where: Carslaw 173 Title: Duistermaat-Heckmann measure in representation theory Abstract: We describe algebraic and geometric manifestations of Duistermaat-Heckmann measures in the context of representation theory.In particular, we discuss how these measures have been used to study (and compare) canonical bases.