Representation
Theory of Real Reductive Lie
Groups
a conference celebrating the birthdays of
Bill Casselman and Dragan Milicic
SCHEDULE
June 4 to June 8, 2006
at the Snowbird Mountain Resort,
Utah
Conference
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The goal of this conference was to summarize the outstanding
problems in
real Lie groups, particularly those with arithmetic applications, and
offer a forward-looking view toward solving them. The conference was
organized
around four primary lecture series:
Jeffrey
Adams (Maryland)
with the assistance of Fokko du Cloux
(Lyon), Computing
with real reductive
groups, abstract,
slides, notes
Jean-Pierre Labesse (Marseilles),
Endoscopy, abstract,
notes
Wilfried Schmid (Harvard),
The Rankin-Selberg method for automorphic distributions,
abstract,
expository
paper (with S. Miller)
David Vogan (MIT),
Arthur's conjectures for unitary representations, abstract,
slides
In addition, there were a number of supplementary lectures (whose
content was closely related to the main lecture series):
Dan Barbasch
(Cornell), Construction of unipotent representations
Dan Ciubotaru
(MIT), Spherical unitary representations for split groups, abtract,
slides
Werner Hoffmann
(Bielefeld), Weighted orbital integrals, abstract,
slides
Ivan Mirkovic
(Massachusetts), D-modules in various characteristics and Langlands
duality, abstract
Wulf Rossmann
(Ottawa), Some special discrete groups of linear transformations,
abstract,
slides
Diana Shelstad
(Rutgers), Twisted endoscopy, slides (revised 6/21)
Kari Vilonen
(Northwestern), Geometric methods in representation theory
The
conference followed a two-week
graduate minicourse devoted to the theory of SL(2,R) held at the
University of Utah from May 21 - June 2. For details related to the
minicourse, please click here.
Though unfortunately unable to attend, Jim Arthur contributed a list of
ten problems for real groups:
Problems
for Real Groups (by J. Arthur).
Organizing Committee:
James Arthur (Toronto)
Wilfried Schmid (Harvard)
Peter Trapa (Utah)
Funding for the conference was provided by a grant from the NSF.