Number Theory Seminar: Jize Yu (Rice University)

Krieger 411

Title: Towards Bezrukavnikov's geometrization of affine Hecke algebras in mixed-characteristics Abstract: Let G be a connected reductive group over a p-adic field. Kazhdan and Lusztig established an isomorphism between the extended affine Hecke algebra of G and certain equivariant K-group of the Steinberg variety of the Langlands dual group of G. This isomorphism plays a crucial […]

Automorphic forms learning seminar: Yiannis Sakellaridis (JHU)

Krieger 413

Title: Transfer operators for the relative trace formula. (Cont.) Abstract: Last time I presented an explicit formula for transfer operators that relate test measures and characters between the double quotients HG/H, for any rank-one homogeneous space G/H and the Whittaker model of SL(2) or PGL(2). In this talk, I will give a possible explanation for […]

Analysis seminar: Yaehyeon Ryu (KIAS)

Krieger 306

Title: Restriction estimates for spectral projectionsAbstract: Restriction estimates for spectral projections have been widely studied since the work of Burq, Gérard, and Tzvetkov as a method for investigating eigenfunction concentration. The problem of establishing the optimal $L^p$ bounds for the restriction of Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions remains open, particularly when the restriction submanifold is of codimension 1 […]

Number Theory Seminar: Melissa Emory (Oklahoma State University)

Krieger 411

Title: Beyond Endoscopy via Poisson Summation for $GL(2,K)$ Abstract: Langlands proposed a strategy called Beyond Endoscopy to prove the principle of functoriality, which is one of the central questions of present day mathematics. Langlands strategy of beyond endoscopy is a two-step process where the first step isolates the packets of cuspidal automorphic representations whose $L$-functions […]

Algebra and Number Theory Day: Laura DeMarco (Harvard)

Gilman Hall 132

Title: From Manin–Mumford to Dynamical Rigidity.Abstract:  In the early 1980s, Raynaud proved a theorem (the Manin–Mumford Conjecture) about the geometry of torsion points in abelian varieties, using number-theoretic methods.  Around the same time, and with completely different methods, McMullen proved a dynamical rigidity theorem for holomorphic maps on P1.  In recent work, joint with Myrto […]

Algebra and Number Theory Day: Alexander Petrov (MIT)

Gilman Hall 132

Title: Characteristic classes of p-adic local systems.Abstract: A useful tool in studying vector bundles on topological spaces or algebraic varieties is characteristic classes in cohomology, such as Chern classes. For vector bundles equipped with a flat connection, Chern classes vanish in cohomology with rational coefficients, but such bundles have a non-trivial theory of secondary characteristic classes, […]

Algebra and Number Theory Day: Mihnea Popa (Harvard)

Gilman Hall 132

Title: Hodge symmetries of singular varieties.Abstract: The Hodge diamond of a smooth projective complex variety contains essential topological and analytic information, including fundamental symmetries provided by Poincaré and Serre duality. I will describe recent progress on understanding how much symmetry there is in the analogous Hodge–Du Bois diamond of a singular variety, and the concrete ways […]