Jörg Schürmann (Münster) 

Title: (Degenerate) affine Hecke algebras and (motivic) Chern classes of Schubert cells

Abstract:
We explain in the context of complete flag varieties X=G/B the relation between (motivic) Chern classes 
of Schubert cells and convolution actions of (degenerate) affine Hecke-algebras as in the work of Ginzburg 
and Tanisaki. This is joint work with P. Aluffi, L. Mihalcea and C. Su.