1998-1999

Schedule, Fall 1998

• September 2:
  • Speaker: David Kazhdan (Harvard Univ.)
  • Title: The principal series and the action of the Weyl group
• September 9:
  • Speaker: David Kazhdan (Harvard Univ.)
  • Title: Eisenstein series
• September 16:
  • Organizational meeting for the rest of the semester
• September 23:
  • Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (UMCP)
  • Title: Covering Groups I
• September 30: No meeting
• October 7:
  • Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (UMCP)
  • Title: Covering Groups II
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• October 14:
  • Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (UMCP)
  • Title: Covering Groups III
• October 21
  • Speaker: Alain Valette (Neuchâtel)
  • Title: A-T-menability: non-rigidity in representation theory
• October 28
  • Speaker: Peter Trapa (IAS)
  • Title: Cells in Hecke Algebras
• Friday, October 30: Note the special colloquium in honor of Adam Kleppner.
• November 4:
  • Speaker: Vincent Lafforgue (École Normale Supérieure)
  • Title: Equivariant KK-theory for Banach algebras and the Baum-Connes conjecture
• November 11:
  • Joint Lie/Number Theory Seminar at 2PM
  • Speaker: Jean-Benoît Bost (École Normale Supérieure and IAS)
  • Title: Arakelov intersection theory on modular curves
• November 18:
  • Speaker: Shu-Yen Pan (UMCP)
  • Title: On the affine buildings of p-adic classical groups I
• November 25:
  • No Seminar
• December 2:
  • Speaker: Shu-Yen Pan (UMCP)
  • Title: On the affine buildings of p-adic classical groups II
• December 9:
  • Speaker: Shu-Yen Pan (UMCP)
  • Title: On the affine buildings of p-adic classical groups III

Schedule, Spring 1999

February 1: (Monday)

Speaker: David Kazhdan (Harvard Univ.)

Title: Crystals

February 10:

Title: Organizational Meeting

February 17:

Speaker: Shu-Yen Pan (UMCP)

Title: The local theta correspondence for supercuspidal representations

February 24:

Speaker: N. Christopher Phillips (Univ. of Oregon)

Title: C*-algebras of minimal diffeomorphisms

Note change of time to 4PM, this day only.

March 3:

Speaker: Dave Witte (Oklahoma State University)

Title: Tessellations of homogeneous spaces of SO(2,n)

March 10:

Speaker: Jens Funke (UMCP)

Title: TBA

March 17:

Speaker: Jiu-Kang Yu (IAS)

Title: Construction of supercuspidal representations

March 24: No meeting (Spring Break)

March 31: No meeting because of Passover

April 7:

Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (IAS)

Title: A Siegel-Weil formula for exceptional groups

April 14:

Speaker: Jens Funke

Title: Rational Quadratic Divisors and Automorphic Forms (Final Oral Exam)

TIME: 12 PM

April 21:

Speaker: Steve Devlin (UMCP)

Title: Whittaker Models (oral qualifying exam)

April 28:

Speaker: Steve Devlin (UMCP)

Title: Whittaker Models for non-linear groups (oral qualifying exam)

May 5: NO SEMINAR

May 12:

Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (UMCP)

Title: Characters of covering groups of SL(n)

May 12:

Speaker: David Kazhdan (Harvard University)

Title: On computation of Fourier transforms

SPECIAL MEETING. NOTE TIME: 3:30 PM