Reading seminar on Arthur's Trace Formula (Math 592, Term I 2015/2016)

Wednesday 4-5:30pm, in Math 126.

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References:

Main text: Part 1 of Arthur's notes in Clay volume

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Tentative schedule

• September 16: Ed. Adeles and strong approximation.
  References: W. Casselman's notes , the book by Platonov and Rapinchuk, Section 2 of Arthur's notes, Notes by B. Conrad .
• September 23: No meeting
• September 30: Lior. Summary of the relevant Functional Analysis.
• October 7: Justin. The trace formula for the compact quotient.
• October 14: Athena. Survey of representation theory of GL(2, R) and SL(2, R).
• October 21: Thomas. Survey of representation theory of GL(2, Q_p) and SL(2, Q_p).
• October 28: Ed. Eisenstein series and intertwining operators.
• November 4. Reza. Non-compact quotient and parabolic subgroups. (Section 4 of Arthur's notes).
• November 11: speaker TBA. From here we should be able to follow Arthur's notes (Section 6, then Section 8, then pretty much consecutive sections until the end of Part I).