Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar

Schedule, Fall 2007

The seminar meets Wednesdays at 2 PM in Math 1311

September 5: Organizational Meeting

September 12:
Speaker: Joaquin Teruji Thomas (Oxford University)
Title: Character of the Oscillator Representation

September 19:
Speaker: Tom Haines (UMCP)
Title: Orbital integrals: what are they and why do we care?

September 26:
Speaker: Sean Rostami (UMCP)
Title: Steinberg's Proof of the Isogeny Theorem

October 3:
Speaker: Jeff Adler (American University)
Title: Towards a lifting of representations of finite reductive groups

October 10:
Speaker: Michael Kapovich (UC Davis)
Title: Saturation theorems

October 24:
Speaker: Jeffrey Adams (Maryland)
Title: More fun with the character of the oscillator representation representation: computing Gauss sums

October 31:
Speaker: Fiona Murnaghan (Toronto)
Title: Spherical characters of distinguished supercuspidal representations

November 7:
Speaker: Pramod Achar (LSU)
Title: Derived categories of coherent sheaves in representation theory

November 28:
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP)
Title: Electromagnetic duality and the Langlands program
Second talk at 3 PM
Speaker: Steve DeBacker (Michigan)
Title: Generalized r-facets: a primer

December 5:
Speaker: Vivek Dhand (Northwestern)
Title: Geometric Langlands duality and forms of reductive groups