Representations of p-adic groups

Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:15 p.m.—5:15 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Colloquium

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 4:15pm

Speaker: 
Jessica Fintzen

Speaker affiliation: 
Duke University

Event description: 
The Langlands program is a far-reaching collection of conjectures that relate different areas of mathematics including number theory and representation theory. A fundamental problem on the representation theory side of the Langlands program is the construction of all (irreducible, smooth, complex) representations of p-adic groups. In my talk I will introduce p-adic groups and provide an overview of our understanding of their representations, with a focus on recent developments. I will also briefly discuss applications to other areas.