Professor Jeffrey Adams
Math 2310
301-405-5493
jda@math.umd.edu
Class: MWF 11, B0425
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 10-11, or by appointment.
This is an advanced topics course, following Roger Carter's book
Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes and Complex
Characters.
Unfortunately this book is out of print, and no longer available from a print on demand service. If anyone can find where to get copies of the book let me know. In the worst case I'll copy or scan it and make it available.
Change in plans: I'll be using Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type by Francois Digne and Jean Michel. This is available in paperback for $45. I'll use Carter as a supplementary reference.
The course requires some familiarity with algebraic groups and algebraic geometry. I'll try to cover what is needed. A major role is played by etale cohomology, but can mostly be treated from a purely formal perspective.
Here is An Introduction to Deligne-Lusztig Theory by Yoshida.