Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar

Schedule, Fall 2005

Note: The seminar will meet this semester on Wednesdays at 3 PM in Math 1311. Occasionally we will switch to 1 PM.

August 31:
Organizational Meeting

September 7:
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (Maryland)
Title: Combinatorics for Representation Theory of Real Groups I

September 14:
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (Maryland)
Title: Combinatorics for Representation Theory of Real Groups II

Monday, September 19: Note change in day and time
Time: 1 PM
Location: Room 1310
Speaker: David Kazhdan (Hebrew University)
Title: Representations of reductive groups over 2-dimensional fields (joint work with Gaitsgory)

September 29:
Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (UCSD and Maryland)
Title: Covering Groups, a la Prasad and Rapinchuk I

October 5 at 1 PM: Note change in time
Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (UCSD and Maryland)
Title: Covering Groups, a la Prasad and Rapinchuk II

October 19 at 1 PM: Note change in time
Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (UCSD and Maryland)
Title: Covering Groups, a la Prasad and Rapinchuk III

October 26 at 1 PM: Note change in time
Speaker: Tom Haines (Maryland)
Title: Newton strata in the adjoint quotient of reductive groups (after Kottwitz)

November 2 at 1 PM: Note change in time
Speaker: Annegret Paul (Western Michigan)
Title: Dual Pairs and the Unitary Dual

November 9
Speaker: Joseph Hundley (Penn State)
Title: Some new Rankin-Selberg Integrals on Orthogonal Groups

November 16 at 1 PM: Note change in time
Speaker: Ramin Takloo-Bigash (Princeton)
Title: Distribution of rational points on compactifications of semi-simple groups

November 30:
Speaker: Gopal Prasad (Michigan)
Title: Zariski-dense subgroups and number theory

Monday, December 5, 1 PM: Note change in day and time
Speaker: Tom Haines (College Park)
Title: Dimensions of some affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties

December 7:
Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh (NYU)
Title: TBA

Schedule, Spring 2006

We will be moving back to our regular time, Wednesday at 2 PM this spring.

January 25:
Organizational Meeting, 2 PM, room 1311

Thursday, February 2, 2 PM in 3206: Note change in date and location
Speaker: Arun Ram (Wisconsin)
Title: Alcove Walks and reductive groups over local fields abstract

Wednesday, February 8:
Speaker: Harry Tamvakis (Brandeis)
Title: Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians abstract

Wednesday, April 5:
Speaker: Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers)
Title: Dirac Cohomology

Wednesday, April 19:
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland)
Title: The Weyl Denominator

Wednesday, May 10:
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland)
Title: A new approach to K-types (after David Vogan)

Wednesday, May 17:
Speaker: Dan Barbasch (Cornell)
Title: Primitive ideals, unitarity, and unipotent representations