I will characterzize, among conical symplectic varieties, the nilpotent orbit closures of a complex semisimple Lie algebra and their finite coverings.

Using Szenes formula for multiple Bernoulli series, we explain how to compute Witten series associated to classical Lie algebras. Particular instances of these series compute volumes of moduli spaces of flat bundles over surfaces, and also certain multiple zeta values.
This is joint work with V. Baldoni and M. Vergne.

Satake duality is an isomorphism between the algebra of characters of a simple Lie group G and the Hecke algebra of the affine Lie group corresponding to the Langlands dual to G. We will suggest a (conjectural) generalisation of this isomorphism replacing the characters by functions on local systems on surfaces and Hecke algebra by the algebra on cells on local systems with values in an affine Lie group.