Papers

Equivalence classes of B-stable ideals , to appear in Nagoya Journal of Math (in honor of George Lusztig).

Exponents for B-stable ideals , (with Julianna Tymoczko) ( PDF), version of June 2004, appeared in TAMS.

Normality of very even nilpotent varieties in D_2l , (PDF), version of January 2004, appeared in Bulletin of LMS.

Type A proof for above paper (and E_6 paper below), will be subsumed into a forthcoming paper called "Functions on nilpotent orbit covers...".

B-stable ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra, (PDF), version of October 2003, appeared in Canadian Bulletin of Math.

A characterization of Dynkin elements (with Paul Gunnells), (PDF),
Math Research Letters 10, (2003), no. 2-3, 363--373.

Normality of nilpotent varieties in E_6 , (PDF), Journal of Algebra, 270 (2003), no. 1, 288-306.

Component groups of unipotent centralizers in good characteristic (with George McNinch), (PDF),
Special issue celebrating the 80th birthday of Robert Steinberg, J. Algebra, 260 (2003), no. 1, 323--337.

Local systems on nilpotent orbits and weighted Dynkin diagrams (with Pramod Achar), (PDF),
Representation Theory, 6 (2002), 190--201.

Conjectures for small representations of the exceptional groups,
Comm. Math. Univ. Sancti Pauli, Vol. 49 (2000), No. 1, 101-104. (PDF)

The following are (potentially) older versions of published papers.
I can always mail out a reprint if you send me an email.

Nilpotent orbits and the affine flag manifold,
Ph.D. Thesis, M.I.T., 1997.

The adjoint representation in rings of functions (with Peter Trapa),
Electronic Journal of Representation Theory, Vol. 1 (1997), 182-189.

A family of affine Weyl group representations,
Transformation Groups, Vol. 2 (1997), No. 4, 375-390. (PDF)

The homology of the space of affine flags containing a nilpotent element,
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 125 (1997), No. 8, 2481-2484. (PDF)

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