Geometric properties related to Beilinson-Bernstein localisation

In recent years, Ardakov and Wadsley have been interested in extending the classical theory of Beilinson-Bernstein localisation to different contexts. The classical proof relies on fundamental geometric properties of the dual nilcone of a semisimple Lie algebra; in particular, finding a nice desingularisation of the nilcone and demonstrating that it is normal. I will attempt to explain the relationship between these properties and the proof, and discuss some areas of my own work, which focuses on proving analogues of these results in the case where the characteristic of the ground field K is bad.