Stanford University Representation Theory Seminar '04-'05

Time: Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m.
Location: Math Department (Bldg 380), Room 380-D (unless otherwise noted)


The seminar is jointly organized by Ben Brubaker and Nat Thiem, both Szego Assistant Professors in the Math Department.

For more information contact us at brubaker@math.stanford.edu and thiem@math.stanford.edu respectively.

Further information about upcoming seminars and people in the math department can be found at the Stanford Math Department Home Page.


Schedule of this year's talks:

FALL QUARTER:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

October 5  Paul Dehaye
(Stanford) 
Deformations of Galois Representations
October 26  Dan Ramras
(Stanford) 
Representability of Mazur's Deformation Functor
November 2 (at Stanford) 
JOINT w/ NUMBER THEORY
William Stein 
(Harvard) 
Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Modular Abelian Varieties at Higher Level
November 9  Michel Broué  
(France) 
p-local theory of finite groups, past and present
November 16  Thomas Lam  
(MIT)  
Representations of Heisenberg algebras and symmetric functions
November 23  Gerhard Hiss  
RWTH Aachen  
Combinatorial designs arising from Fermat's equation
December 1 (WEDNESDAY)  
380-X, 5 pm
Patricia Hersh 
(Indiana/MSRI)  
A GL_n(F_q) analogue of the partition lattice and discrete Morse theory for posets
December 7  Sergi Elizalde 
(MSRI)
Refined enumeration of pattern-avoiding permutations

SPRING QUARTER:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

April 5 
380-383N
Nat Thiem
(Stanford) 
Deligne-Lusztig induction in the language of GL(n)
April 12 
Room: 383N
Geir Helleloid
(Stanford) 
The birthday problem and the symmetric chromatic polynomial
April 19 
Room 380D
Daniel Bump
(Stanford) 
Derivatives of modular forms of negative weight
April 27 (Wednesday) 
Room: 380-D
P. Fong
(University of Illinois-Chicago) 
Global-local bijections in finite reductive groups
May 2 (Monday) 
Room: 383-N
JOINT w/ ALG. GEOMETRY SEMINAR
P. Kassaei
(Max Planck Institute) 
p-Adic analytic continuation of overconvergent modular forms
May 2 (Monday) 
Room: 381-U, 4:15 pm
JOINT w/ ALG. GEOMETRY SEMINAR
B. Conrad
(University of Michigan) 
p-Adic families of abelian varieties
May 3 (Tuesday) 
Room: 380-D
Y. Sakelliridis
(Stanford) 
TBA
May 10 (Tuesday) 
Room: 380-D
M. Vazerani
(UC-Davis)  
Vanishing integrals of Macdonald polynomials
May 17 (Tuesday) 
Room: 380-D
K. Soundararajan
(University of Michigan) 
The Distribution of Values of L-functions
May 31 (Tuesday) 
Room: 380-D
M. Thillainatesan
(UCLA) 
A Kernel for Automorphic L-functions