GLNT Seminar
Winter 2010

The seminar meets in East Hall 4096, 3:10-5pm, with a short tea break at 4pm, except as noted below.
The first part of the talk should be more expository in nature, and the second part can (but need not!) be more technical.

Schedule of Talks

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

January 8, 3:10-5 pm
Note special day
Ruochuan Liu (Mcgill)
Locally analytic vectors of some crystabelian representations of GL_2 (Q_p)
January 11, 3:10-5 pm
Joe Rabinoff (Harvard)
Canonical subgroups for p-divisible groups
January 18, 3:10-5 pm
No meeting
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 22, 3:10-5 pm
Note special day
Yiannis Sakellaridis (Toronto)
On the Plancherel formula for spherical varieties over p-adic fields
January 25, 3:10-5 pm
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
Some remarks on the Galois representations associated with Hilbert modular forms
January 26, 4:10-5:00pm, EH 1360
January 27, 3:10-4:00pm, EH 3088
January 28, 3:10-4:00pm, EH 2866
Chris Skinner (Princeton)
Ziwet Lectures
February 1, 3:10-5 pm
Steve Smith (UIC)
Revisiting the classification of finite simple groups
February 8, 3:10-5 pm
Bob Griess (UM)
A moonshine path from the E_8 diagram to the Monster
February 9, 3:10-4 pm, EH 3088
Note special day and time
David Masser (Basel)
Joint GLNT/Algebra seminar
Torsion points and families of elliptic curves
February 15, 3:10-5 pm
Florian Herzig (Northwestern)
The classification of irreducible mod p representations of a p-adic GL_n
February 22, 3:10-5 pm
Jeff Adams (UMD)
Computing the unitary dual
March 1, 3:10-5 pm
No meeting
Winter break
March 8, 3:10-5 pm
Tom Haines (UMD)
The Bernstein center of a p-adic group and the Langlands program
March 15, 3:10-5 pm
Ching Hung Lam (Taiwan)
Construction of holomorphic vertex operator algebras using Virasoro frames
March 19 (Friday), 3:10-4 pm
Note special day/time
Mark Watkins (MAGMA)
On a polynomial analogue of Hall's conjecture
March 22, 3:10-5 pm
Atsushi Ichino (Osaka)
Formal degrees and local theta correspondence
March 29, 3:10-5 pm
Kevin Ford (UIUC/IAS)
Prime chains and applications
April 5, 3:10-5 pm
Travis Schedler (MIT)
Poisson traces and D-modules
April 12, 3:10-5 pm
Tonghai Yang (Wisconsin)
A variant of the Gross-Zagier formula
April 19, 3:10-5 pm
Matt Baker (Georgia)
Michigan Lectures in number theory Poster
Abstracts



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