GLNT Seminar
Fall 2008

The seminar meets in East Hall 4096, 3:10-5pm, with a short tea break at 4pm. 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 name of the title for the abstract (if available).

September 8, 3:10-5 pm
Marty Weissman (Santa Cruz)
Metaplectic Tori
September 15, 3:10-5 pm
Brian Conrad (Stanford)
Finiteness theorems for algebraic groups over function fields
September 22, 3:10-5 pm
Jonathan Bober (Michigan)
Integral ratios of factorials and related problems
September 29, 3:10-5 pm
Shuichiro Takeda (Purdue)
The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4)
October 6 (4096) and 8, 10 (4088), 3:10-5 pm
Mitya Boyarchenko (Chicago)
Character sheaves on unipotent groups in positive characteristic
October 13, 3:10-5 pm
David Whitehouse (MIT)
Applications of the Relative Trace Formula to Central L-values
October 20, 3:10-5 pm
Fall Break
October 27, 3:10-5 pm
Moshe Adrian (Maryland)
Revisiting the local Langlands conjecture for GL(2)
November 3, 3:10-5 pm
Loren Spice (Michigan)
Supercuspidal characters and applications
November 10, 3:10-5 pm
Kai-Wen Lan (Princeton)
Extensions over Toroidal Boundaries of Shimura Varieties
November 17, 3:10-5 pm
Tasho Statev Kaletha (Chicago)
Towards a stable toplogical trace formula
November 24, 3:10-5 pm
Kirsten Eisentraeger (Penn State)
Descent on elliptic curves and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
December 1, 3:10-5 pm
Roman Holowinsky (Toronto)
The Rudnick-Sarnak Conjectures
December 8, 3:10-5 pm
George McNinch (Tufts)
Nilpotent orbits for a reductive group over a local field



Winter 2008 Schedule


Current Schedule


Winter 2009 Schedule


Back to UM Math seminars page.