Stanford Representation Theory Seminar

Stanford University Representation Theory Seminar '05-'06

Time: Tuesdays, 4:15-5:15 p.m.
Location: Room 381-T, First Floor, Math Building (Bldg. 380)
(Tea served from 3:30 - 4:00 in the second floor lounge of the math dept.)


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 or thiem@math.stanford.edu respectively.

This seminar covers topics ranging from arithmetic applications of automorphic forms and automorphic representations to the combinatorics of representation theory and of Lie type.

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:

SPRING QUARTER:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

April 4   Tom Halverson
(Macalester College) 
Partition Algebras
April 12 (4:00 pm, 383N)  
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY/TIME/PLACE
David Bressoud
(Macalester College) 
Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and the Weyl Character Formulas
May 9   Alex Ghitza
(McGill University) 
A theta operator for Siegel modular forms (mod p)
May 10 (4:15 pm, 381U)  
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY/TIME/PLACE
Persi Diaconis
(Stanford University) 
Super characters for the masses
May 17 (4:15 pm, 381U)  
NOTE: SPECIAL DAY/TIME/PLACE
Nat Thiem
(Stanford University) 
The representation theory of pattern groups

WINTER QUARTER:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

January 17   Daniel Bump
(Stanford) 
On Brauer Theory
January 24   Daniel Bump
(Stanford) 
On Brauer Theory II: Blocks
January 31   Yiannis Sakellaridis
(Stanford) 
On the unramified spectrum of spherical varieties over p-adic fields
February 7   No Seminar
 
February 21   Joel Kamnitzer
(MIT) 
Crystals and coboundary categories
March 7   Mladen Dmitrov
(Cal Tech)  
On dihedral Galois representations associated to Hilbert modular forms
March 10 (3:15 pm, 383N)  
NOTE: SPECIAL DOUBLE SEMINAR
Henry Kim
(Toronto)  
Holomorphy of the 9th symmetric power L-functions for Re(s)>1
March 10 (4:15 pm, 383N)  
NOTE: SPECIAL DOUBLE SEMINAR
Brooke Feigan
(UCLA)  
A relative trace formula in the local setting
March 14   Ryan Vinroot
(Arizona)  
The number of irreducible Specht modules in blocks of the symmetric group
March 17   Samit Dasgupta
(Harvard)  
Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields

FALL QUARTER:

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

September 27  Persi Diaconis
(Stanford) 
Fixed points of random permutations and the Aschbacher-O'Nan-Scott Theorem
October 4  Ben Brubaker
(Stanford) 
Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series
October 11  David Ginzburg
(Tel Aviv University) 
Endoscopic lifting in classical groups
October 18  Lauren Williams
(Berkeley) 
Shelling totally nonnegative flag varieties
October 25  Anne Schilling
(UC - Davis) 
Crystal structure on rigged configurations
WED., November 2 
SPECIAL NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
381 U, 3:15
Ken Ono
(Univ. of Wisconsin) 
Freeman Dyson's "Challenge for the Future": The mock theta functions
FRI., November 11 
SPECIAL REPRESENTATION THEORY SEMINAR
381T, 4:15-5:15
Martin Isaacs
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
Characters and local subgroups: conjectures in finite group theory
November 15  Geir Helleloid
(Stanford)  
Almost all p-groups have automorphism group p-group for p odd
November 22  THANKSGIVING BREAK NO SEMINAR
November 29  Yiannis Sakellaridis
(Stanford)  
POSTPONED to January (No Seminar)
December 6  Alexander Kleshchev
(University of Oregon) 
Polynomial representations of GL(n) and finite W-algebras
December 13  Shamgar Gurevich
(Tel-Aviv University) 
Quantum Chaos: Proof of the Kurlberg-Rudnick Conjecture

Last year's speakers and talks