Lie Theory Seminar
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Friday , Vincent Hall
Organized by Dihua Jiang


Schedule of the Academic Year 2022-2023

Date, Place, Time   Speaker   Title 
09/09, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-1  
09/16, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-2  
09/23, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Ben Brubaker  
(UMN) 
Lattice Models for Metaplectic Whittaker Functions  
09/30, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-3  
10/07, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-4  
10/14, VinH 06  
(11:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-5  
10/21, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Ian Whitehead  
(Swarthmore College) 
Apollonian Packings and Kac-Moody Root Systems  
10/28, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-6  
11/04, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-7  
11/11, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Tasho Kaletha  
(University of Michigan) 
Covers of Reductive Groups and Functoriality  
11/18, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
Chen Wan  
(Rutgers University) 
Multiplicity Formula for Spherical Varieties  
12/02, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
John O'Brien  
(UMN) 
Calculations with the Geometric Satake Correspondence, I  
12/09, VinH 06  
(10:00-11:00) 
John O'Brien  
(UMN) 
Calculations with the Geometric Satake Correspondence, II  
Winter Break  
 
 
 
 
01/27, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-8  
02/03, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-9  
02/10, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-10  
02/17, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-11  
02/24 Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Zeta Integrals-12  
03/03, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Cheng Chen  
(UMN) 
Local Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture for Classical Groups 
03/10, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
 
(UMN) 
Spring Break  
03/17, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Zhilin Luo  
(University of Chicago) 
Hankel Kernels on General Linear Groups  
03/24, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Daoji Huang  
(UMN) 
A Bruhat Atlas on the Wonderful Compactification of PSO(2n)/SO(2n-1)  
03/31, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Lei Zhang  
(National University of Singapore) 
Arithmetic Wavefront Sets for Classical Groups ovr Finite Fields 
04/07, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Lingfei Yi  
(UMN)  
Hypergeometric Sheaves and Rigid Automorphic Data  
04/14, VinH 209  
(10:00-11:00) 
 
(UMN) 
 
04/21, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Jayce Getz  
(Duke University) 
Integral Reprepsentations Related to Triple Product L-functions 
04/28, Ford Hall B29  
(10:00-11:00) 
Xinchen Miao  
(UMN) 
Local Inetrability of Bessel Distributions on GL(n) 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2019-2020

Date, Place, Time   Speaker   Title 
09/13, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
09/20, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
09/27, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
10/04, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
10/11, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet Fundamental Lemma and Transfer  
10/18, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Cheng Chen  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
10/25, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Cheng Chen  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
11/01, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet Fundamental Lemma and Transfer  
11/08, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet Fundamental Lemma and Transfer  
11/15, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Cheng Chen  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
11/22, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Cheng Chen  
(UMN) 
Euler Product Decomposition Of Automorphic Periods  
12/06, VinH 01  
(15:30-16:30) 
Aaron Pollack  
(Duke University) 
Special Modular Forms on Exceptional Groups  
Winter Break  
() 
 
() 
 
02/07, VinH 209  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Zeta functions associated to prehomogegeous vector spaces  
02/14, VinH 209  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Zeta functions associated to prehomogegeous vector spaces  
02/21, VinH 209  
(15:30-16:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Fibre integration and Poisson summation formula  



Schedule of the Academic Year 2018-2019

Date, Place, Time   Speaker   Title 
09/14, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Differential Operators and D-modules  
09/21, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Kai-Wen Lan 
(UMN) 
Some Categories of D-modules 
09/23-10/03, VinH 16  
(15:30-16:30) 
Kari Vilonen 
(U. of Melbourne) 
4 Ordway Lectures on Microlocal Analysis and Co-dimension 3 Conjecture  
10/05, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Kai-Wen Lan 
(UMN) 
Inverse Images and Direct Images  
10/12, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Kashiwara's Equivalence 
10/19, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Dihua Jiang/Tianxin Cai 
(UMN)/(Zhejiang U.) 
Characteristic Varieties (Singular Supports)/TBA  
10/26, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Daniel Johnstone  
(UMN) 
Dimensions of Characteristic Varieties  
11/02, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Daniel Johnstone  
(UMN) 
Inverse Images in the N0n-characteristic case  
11/09, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
David Sherman  
(UMN) 
Duality Functors  
11/16,  
() 
R. Langlands  
(IMA-UMN) 
The 6th Abel Conference for R, Langlands  
11/30,  
() 
 
(UMN) 
 
12/07, VinH 313  
(14:30-17:30) 
Koji Shimizu  
(UC-Berkeley) 
Functors for holonomic D-modules  
Winter Break, VinH  
() 
 
() 
IMS-NUS Program on Langlands Functoriality: endoscopy and beyond  
Spring, 2019,  
() 
D-Module Seminar  
(U. of MN) 
http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~kwlan/academic.html  



Schedule of the Academic Year 2017-2018

Date, Place, Time   Speaker   Title 
09/08, Folwell Hall 121  
(15:35-16:25) 
Yuri Tschinkel  
(Courant Institute) 
Joint Algebraic Geometry & Lie Theory Seminar: Rational Problems  
09/15, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Fangyang Tian  
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
09/22, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Fangyang Tian 
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
09/29, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
10/06, VinH 570  
(11:00-12:00) 
Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
On Generalization of the Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis Doubling Method 
10/06, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
10/13, VinH 570  
(11:00-12:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Global Zeta Integrals and Related Problems 
10/13, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Fangyang Tian  
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
10/20,  
() 
Conference  
(Purdue) 
2017 Paul J. Sally, Jr. Midwest Representation Theory Conference  
10/27, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Daniel Johnstone 
(UMN) 
Hankel Transforms  
11/03,  
() 
Conference  
(Banff) 
Automorphic Forms, Mock Modular Forms and String Theory  
11/10, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Fangyang Tian 
(UMN) 
Bessel Distributions  
11/17, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Continuous Cohomology  
11/24,  
() 
 
(UMN) 
Happy Thanksgiving Holiday  
12/01, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Tsao-Hsien Chen  
(U. of Chicago) 
Geometry of Casselman's Subrepresentation Theorem  
12/08,  
() 
Conference  
(AIM) 
Functoriality and the Trace Formula  
12-01,  
() 
 
(UMN) 
Winter Braek  
01/19, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Automorphic Bessel Descents  
01/26, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Automorphic Bessel Descents  
02/02, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Spherical Varieties and Harmonic Analysis  
02/09, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo 
(UMN) 
Kirillov Models of GL(n)  
02/16, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Kirillov Models of GL(n)  
02/23, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Kirillov Models of GL(n)  
03/02, VinH 364  
(16:30-17:30) 
Rahul Krishna  
(Northwestern U.) 
Towards the Global Gross-Prasad Conjecture for Orthogonal Groups  
03/09, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Automorphic L-functions and Langlands Functoriality  
03/16, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
 
(UMN) 
Spring Break  
03/23, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Baiying Liu  
(Purdue U.) 
On Certain Poisson Summation Formulas  
03/30, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Chung Pang Mok 
(Purdue U.) 
Local Trace Formula  
04/06, VinH 301  
(15:30-17:00) 
Lei Zhang  
(National U. of Singapore) 
Braverman-Kazhdan Proposal for Classical Groups  
04/13, VinH  
() 
Bao Chau Ngo 
(U. of Chicago) 
Distinguished Ordway Lecture Series  
04/20, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Fangyang Tian  
(UMN) 
Non-vanishing Problem and Shalika Functionals  
04/27, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
 
(UMN) 
 
05/04, VinH 364  
(15:30-17:00) 
Chen Wan 
(IAS and MIT) 
Local Multiplicity Formula and Generalized Shalika Functionals  



Schedule of the Academic Year 2016-2017

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/09   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
09/16   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable tracce formula  
09/23   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
09/30   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
10/07   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
10/14   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
10/21   Chen Wan  
( UMN ) 
Arthur stable trace formula  
10/28   AMS meeting  
(St. Thomas University) 
Representation Theory, automorphic forms and related topics  
11/10  Freydoon Shahidi  
(Purdue University) 
Reciprocity and functoriality 
11/11  Freydoon Shahidi 
(Purdue University)  
Local coefficients and monoinds  
11/14  Freydoon Shahidi 
(Purdue University) 
Local gamma factors and the Braverman-Kazhdan proposal  
12/02   Ivan Loseu  
(Northeastern University) 
The orbit method via deformations of singular symplectic varieties  
12/07   Aaron Pollack  
(Stanford University) 
Arithmetic invariant theory and L-functions  
12/09   Daniel Johnstone  
(University of Chicago) 
A Gelfand-Graev Formula and Stable Transfer Factors for SL_n  
01/20   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
Satake Transforms  
01/27   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
On the Braverman-Kazhdan Proposal I.  
02/03  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On the Braverman-Kazhdan Proposal II.  
02/10  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Trace Paley-Wiener Theorem  
02/17  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Algebraic Integrations I.  
02/24  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Algebraic Integrations II.  
03/03  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Conjectural Algebraic Formula for Representations of GL(n), I.  
03/10    
 
No meeting  
03/24   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Conjectural Algebraic Formula for Representations of GL(n), II.  
03/31  Zhilin Luo  
(UMN)  
On Conjectural Algebraic Formula for Representations of GL(n), III.  
04/07 (1:25-5:00)   Zhilin Luo  
(UMN) 
On Conjectural Algebraic Formula for Representations of GL(n), IV.  
04/14 (2:40-4:40)   Yiannis Sakellaridis  
(Rutgers, U. of Chicago, NTUA) 
Regularization of orbital integrals  
04/21   Fangyang Tian  
(UMN)  
On the Archimedean Local Theory of the Certain L-functions  
04/28    
(UMN) 
 
05/05    
() 
 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2015-2016

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/18   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Basic functions and L-functions  
09/25   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Basic functions and L-functions  
10/02   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Basic functions and L-functions  
10/09   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence  
10/16   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence  
10/23   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
On the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence  
10/30   Fangyang Tian  
( UMN ) 
Embeddings of discrete series representations  
11/06  Peter Sarnak  
(Princeton U. and IAS ) 
Distinguished Ordway Lecture Series  
11/13  Fangyang Tian  
(UMN) 
Embeddings of discrete series representations  
11/20   
KIAS  
Program at KIAS, South Korea  
12/04   
AIM  
AIM Workshop on Automorphic Kernel Functions 
02/05 (2:30-5:00)   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Trace Formulas  
02/12 (2:30-4:00)   Xin Wan  
(Columbia University) 
Iwasawa main conjecture for supersingular elliptic curves  
02/19 (1:25-5:00)   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Trace Formulas  
02/26 (1:25-5:00)   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Trace Formulas  
03/04 (1:25-5:00)   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Trace Formulas  
03/11   
Singapore  
Program in The National University of Singapore  
03/25   
Singapore  
Program in The National University of Singapore  
04/01 (1:25-5:00)   Chen Wan  
( UMN) 
Introduction to Trace Formulas  
04/08 (2:40-4:40)   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Multiplicity one for Ginzburg-Rallis models  
04/15    
Schloss Elmau  
Simons Symposium on Geometric Aspects of the Trace Formula  
04/22   Qinghua Pi  
(Shandong University and UMN) 
On the work of Goldfeld and Li  
04/29 (2:30-4:30)   Ahmed Abbes  
(IHES and Ordway Visitor) 
The Hodge-Tate spectral sequence  
05/06   
() 
 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2014-2015

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/12   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to arithmetic groups and reduction theory  
09/19   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Haar measures and Tamagawa measures  
09/26  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Tamagawa measures and the Weil conjecture  
10/03   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Siegel sets and Arthur truncation  
10/10   Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
Cuspidal automorphic forms and basic properties  
10/17   Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Higher Koecher's principle, I  
10/24   Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Higher Koecher's principle, II  
10/31   Fangyang Tian  
( UMN ) 
On the Langlands classification  
11/07  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN ) 
Periods and (\chi,b)-factors of cuspidal automorphic forms of symplectic groups 
11/14  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN) 
Some applications of the Arthur trucation method  
11/21  Peter Olver  
(UMN) 
Structure theory for Lie pseudo-groups  
01/23  Yifeng Liu  
(MIT) 
Refined Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture for Bessel periods  
01/30  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Howe duality and endoscopy correspondence I  
02/06  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN) 
Periods identity and theta correspondence I  
02/13  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN) 
Periods identity and theta correspondence II  
02/20  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Howe duality and endoscopy correspondence II  
02/27  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN) 
Periods identity and theta correspondence III  
03/06  Fangyang Tian  
(University) 
Whittaker functions and the Mellin transform I  
03/13   
(UMN ) 
Garrett's talk on Riemann Hyperthesis  
03/27  Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Vanishing theorems for coherent automorphic cohomology I  
04/03  Kai-Wen Lan  
( UMN) 
Vanishing theorems for coherent automorphic cohomology II  
04/10  Fangyang Tian  
(UMN) 
Whittaker functions and the Mellin transform II  
04/17  Xuhua He  
(University of Maryland) 
Cocenters and representations of affine Hecke algebras  
05/01  Bin Xu  
(IAS, Princeton) 
L-packets for similitude groups  



Schedule of the Academic Year 2013-2014

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/13   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (I)  
09/20   Brian Conrad  
(Stanford University) 
Some New Developments with Algebraic Groups  
09/27   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (II)  
10/04   Shouwu Zhang  
(Princeton University) 
p-adic periods and p-adic L-functions (Ordway Lecture 3) 
10/11  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (III)  
10/18    
 
Advances in the theory of automorphic forms and their L-functions (Vienna)  
10/25    
 
Advances in the theory of automorphic forms and their L-functions (Vienna)  
11/01   Chenyan Wu  
( UMN ) 
On Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture (I)  
11/08  Chenyan Wu  
(UMN ) 
On Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture (II)  
11/15  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (IV)  
11/22  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (V)  
12/06  Bianca Viray  
(Brown University) 
An arithmetic intersection formula for denominators of Igusa class polynomials  
01/31  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (VI)  
02/07  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (VII)  
02/14  Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
On quadratic automorphic induction following H. Jacquet and L. Lafforgue  
02/21  Chen Wan  
(UMN) 
On quadratic automorphic induction following H. Jacquet and L. Lafforgue (II)  
02/28  Sol Friedberg  
(Boston College) 
Descent Integrals and Theta Functions  
03/07  Amy DeCelles  
(University of St. Thomas) 
Designing Poincare Series for Number Theoretic Applications  
03/14  Baiying Liu  
(University of Utah) 
On a conjecture of Jiang on Fourier coefficients and Arthur parameters for classical groups  
03/28  Paul Baum  
(Pennsylvania State University) 
Geometric structure and the local Langlands conjecture  
04/04  Xin Wan  
(Columbia University) 
Iwasawa-Greenberg main conjectures for Rankin-Selberg p-adic L-functions.  
04/11  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (VIII)  
04/18  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (IX)  
04/25  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic L-functions and the Langlands Program (X)  
05/02  Ben Brubaker  
(UMN) 
Whittaker coefficients of parabolic Eisenstein series (postponed)  
05/09  Gordan Savin  
(University of Utah) 
Triality D4 and exceptional theta correspondences  



Schedule of the Academic Year 2012-2013

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/14   Simon Marshall  
(Northwestern University) 
Endoscopy and cohomology growth on U(2,1) 
09/21   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Fourier Coefficients and Arthur Parameters (I)  
09/28   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Fourier Coefficients and Arthur Parameters (II) 
10/05   Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Galois representations for regular algebraic automorphic representations over CM fields  
10/12  Kai-Wen Lan  
(UMN) 
Galois representations for regular algebraic automorphic representations over CM fields: continuation  
10/19   Baiying Liu  
(UMN ) 
Fourier Coefficients and Arthur Parameters (III)  
10/26   Xin Shen  
(UMN) 
Basic local theory of tensor product L-functions  
11/02   Moshe Adrian  
( University of Utah) 
(1) The local Langlands conjecture for p-adic groups;  
(2) Hecke algebras and simple supercuspidal representations of p-adic groups.  
11/09  Ben Brubaker  
(UMN ) 
Unique models and Hecke algebra representations 
11/16  Tasho Kaletha  
(Princeton University) 
Epipelagic L-packets and rectifying characters  
11/30  Baiying Liu  
(UMN) 
Fourier Coefficients and Arthur Parameters (IV)  
12/07  Yu-Jong Tzeng  
(Harvard U.) 
joint with special Algebraic Geometry Seminar (12:20pm) 
01/25  Ting Xue  
(Northwestern U.) 
The Springer Correspondence and Nilpotent Pieces  
(Special Events and Seminars (12:20--1:20pm, VH 570))
02/15  Yiannis Sakellaridis  
(Rutgers U.) 
Standard and nonstandard comparisons of relative trace formulas  
03/01  Dani Szpruch  
(Purdue U.) 
Local representation theory of the metaplectic double cover of GSp(2n,F)  
03/15  Junecue Suh  
(Harvard U.) 
Parity in the cohomology of algebraic varieties  
04/12  Baiying Liu  
(UMN) 
Fourier coefficients and Arthur classification  
04/26  Jayce Getz  
( Duke Univeristy) 
An approach to nonsolvable base change for GL(2)  
05/06-10  Chung Pang Mok  
Jun Yu and Lei Zhang 
Mini-Workshop on Langlands Functoriality  
05/17  Xin Shen  
(UMN) 
 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2011-2012

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/9   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic Descents 
09/16   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Away for a conference at Columbia University  
09/23   David Ginzburg  
(Tel Aviv University) 
Global Theory for Automorphic Representations of G_2  
09/30   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic Descents  
10/07  Chengyan Wu  
(University of Minnesota) 
Rallis Inner Product Formula for Mp(2n) and O(2n+1)  
10/14   Hui Xue 
(Clemson University) 
An arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula  
10/21   Xin Shen  
(University of Minnesota ) 
Automorphic L-functions of orthogonal groups at unramified local places  
10/28   Yufeng Zhao  
(MIT and Beijing University) 
Generalized conformal representations of orthogonal Lie algebras  
11/04  Zhiwei Yun  
(MIT ) 
Fundamental lemmas: how geometry helps counting  
11/11  Peter Olver  
(UMN) 
(postponed)  
11/18  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Give a Talk at UCI  
11/25   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Thanksgiving Holiday 
12/02  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Away for PANTS 
12/09  Liang Xiao  
(University of Chicago) 
On the parity conjecture for Selmer groups of modular forms  
12/16  Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Introduction to Automorphic Descents 
  12/22/2010-01/17/2011  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Winter Break 
01/27  Chenyan Wu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Theta correspondence for unitary groups 
02/03  Chenyan Wu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Theta correspondence for unitary groups II  
02/10  Ting Xue  
(Northwestern U.) 
Nilpotent orbits and Springer correspondence  
02/17  Xin Shen 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Fourier-Jacobi functionals at unramified places 
02/24  Baiying Liu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Topics in automorphic forms 
03/02  Chenyan Wu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Theta correspondence for unitary groups III 
03/09  Lei Zhang 
(Boston College) 
L-functions for unitary groups  
03/16   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Spring Break 
03/23  Chenyan Wu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Theta correspondence for unitary groups IV 
03/30  Baiying Liu  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Fourier coefficients for discrete spectrum of GL(n)  
04/06  Xin Shen  
(University of MN) 
Shintani functions of Fourier-Jacobi type  
04/13  Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Endoscopy correspondence: construction and characterization 
04/20  Chufeng Nien  
(National Cheng Kung University) 
On local gamma factors of Rankin-Selberg type  
04/27  Conference at  
(Yale Univeristy) 
Automorphic Forms and Related Geometry 
05/04   
() 
 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2010-2011

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/10   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Organization Meeting 
09/17   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Representations and local factors  
09/24   Xin Shen  
(UMN) 
Representations and local factors-unitary groups  
10/01   Xin Shen  
(UMN) 
Representations and local factors-unitary groups  
10/08  David Ginzburg  
(Tel Aviv University) 
Global Integrals and Functorial Liftings using Small Representations  
10/15   Peter Trapa 
(University of Utah) 
The Dirac operator and unitary representations of split p-adic groups  
10/22   Jim Cogdell 
(Ohio State University) 
On Local L-functions  
10/29   Dihua Jiang  
(UMN) 
Eisenstein Series and L-functions  
11/05  Jeff Adams 
(University of Maryland) 
 
11/12  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Eisenstein Series and L-functions  
11/19  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Eisenstein Series and L-functions  
11/26   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Thanksgiving Holiday 
12/03  Dihua Jiang 
(UMN) 
Eisenstein Series and L-functions  
12/10  Christian Zorn  
(Boston College) 
 
  12/22/2010-01/17/2011  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Winter Break 
01/21   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
01/28   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
02/04   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
02/11   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
02/18  Stephen DeBacker 
(University of Michigan) 
 
02/25   
() 
 
03/04   
() 
 
03/11   
() 
No Meeting  
03/18   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Spring Break 
03/25   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
04/01   
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
04/08  Jeff Adler  
(American University) 
 
04/15   
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
04/22  Joe Hundley  
(Southern Illinois University Carbondale) 
Fourier Coefficients and Integral Representations in the Exceptional Groups  
04/29   
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
05/06   
() 
 



Schedule of the Academic Year 2009-2010

Date   Speaker   Title 
09/11   Werner Mueller  
(University of Bonn/Ordway Vivistor) 
Special Ordway Lecture on Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms 
09/18   Werner Mueller  
(University of Bonn/Ordway Vivistor) 
Special Ordway Lecture on Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms 
09/25   Lin Weng  
(Kyushu University) 
Zeta Functions for (G,P)/Q  
10/02   Justin Young  
(Ohio State University) 
The twisted tensor L-function of GSp(4)  
10/09  David Ginzburg  
(Tel Aviv University) 
Branching rules obtained from explicit constructions of liftings of automorphic representations 
10/16    
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Lecture for Today  
10/23    
(At U. of Iowa) 
Midwest Conference on Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory, and Number Theory  
10/30  Bill Casselman 
(U. of British-Columbia) 
Fundamental Lemma for SL(2) 
11/06  Jeff Hakim 
(American University) 
Symmetric spaces and supercuspidal representations 
11/13  Yiannis Sakellaridis  
(University of Toronto) 
On the Plancherel formula for spherical varieties over p-adic fields  
11/20  Fiona Murnaghan  
(University of Toronto) 
Relatively supercuspidal representations of reductive p-adic groups  
11/27   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Thanksgiving Holiday 
12/04  Dihua Jiang 
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
12/11  Dihua Jiang 
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
  12/22/2009-01/18/2010  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Winter Break 
01/22   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting  
01/29   
(U. of Minnesota) 
No Meeting 
02/05  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups  
02/12  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory 
02/19  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota ) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
02/26  Yannan Qiu  
( Columbia University) 
Local and global invariant functionals  
03/05  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
03/12   
() 
No Meeting  
03/19   
(U. of Minnesota) 
Spring Break 
03/26  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
04/02  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory 
04/09  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
04/16  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
04/23  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory  
04/23  Xin Shen  
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory 
04/30  Xin Shen 
(U. of Minnesota) 
L-functions for orthogonal groups-local theory 
05/07  Julee Kim 
(MIT) 
Generalize Casselman-Shalika formula for p-adic groups 
07/02  David Soudry 
(Tel Aviv University) 
Automorphic Descent and CAP Representations  



Schedule of Fall, 2007

09/06--10/19  Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Representations and Invariants 
10/26   Jeb F. Willenbring  
(U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 
Combinatorial properties of Blattner's formula  
11/02--12/14   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Representations and Invariants  
  Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
 



Schedule of Spring, 2004

01/22   Pramod Achar  
(U. of Chicago) 
The equivarinat K-theory of the unipotent variety 
01/29---   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
On Klyachko models 
02/05   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Non-vanishing of the central value of L-functions  
02/12   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
give a talk at Purdue University 
02/19   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
On the Gross-Prasad conjecture  
02/26   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota ) 
On the Gross-Prasad conjecture  
03/04   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
On the Gross-Prasad conjecture  
03/11   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
On the Gross-Prasad conjecture  
03/25   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Give a talk in New York 
04/01   C.-F. Nien 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Models for representations of p-adic general linear groups  
04/08   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota ) 
Bessel models for Sp(4)  
04/15   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Bessel models for Sp(4)  
04/23  
(Friday) 
Anthony Kable  
(Ok. State. Univ.) 
Asymptotic Numeration of Number Fields: A Survey 
04/29   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota ) 
Bessel models for Sp(4)  
05/06   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota ) 
Bessel models for Sp(4)  



Schedule of Fall, 2003

09/11   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Department Colloquium 
09/18   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Local Langlands Conjectures  
09/25   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Local Langlands Conjectures  
09/30, 10/02   Guy Henniart  
(Ordway Visitor, U. of Paris XI) 
Local Langlands correspondence for GL(N) and higher L-functions. I,II 
10/07, 10/09  Guy Henniart  
(Ordway Visitor, U. of Paris XI ) 
Local Langlands correspondence for GL(N) and higher L-functions. III,IV  
10/14, 10/16   Guy Henniart  
(Ordway Visitor, U. of Paris XI) 
Local Langlands correspondence for GL(N) and higher L-functions. V,VI  
10/21, 10/23   Guy Henniart  
(Ordway Visitor, U. of Paris XI) 
Local Langlands correspondence for GL(N) and higher L-functions. VII,VIII  
10/30   Ralf Schmidt 
(U. of Minnesota) 
On Saito-Kurokawa Liftings 
11/06   Ralf Schmidt 
(U. of Minnesota) 
On Saito-Kurokawa Liftings 
11/13   Dihua Jiang 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Talk at Arizona 
11/20   Dihua Jiang 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Discrete Series of p-adic Groups 
11/27   Everybody  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Thanksgiving 
12/04  Marko Tadic  
(Univ. of Zagreb) 
Unitary Generic Representations of Quasi-split Groups 
12/11   Marko Tadic  
(Univ. of Zagreb) 
Unitary Generic Representations of Quasi-split Groups 
12/20--01/20  Everybody  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Have a Nice Winter Break  



Schedule of Spring, 2003

02/06   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Models of representations of p-adic groups, I 
02/13   Dihua Jiang  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Models of representations of p-adic groups, II  
02/20   Paul Garrett  
(U. of Minnesota) 
The Borel-Matsumoto theorem: admissible representations of p-adic reductive groups with Iwahori-fixed vectors  
02/27   Paul Garrett  
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
03/04,06  Roger Howe 
(Ordway Visitor, Yale Univ.) 
Reciprocity Algebras in Invariant Theory, I, II  
03/11,13   Roger Howe  
(Ordway Visitor, Yale Univ.) 
Reciprocity Algebras in Invariant Theory, III, IV 
04/03    
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
04/10    
() 
 
04/17    
(U. of Minnesota) 
 
04/22,24   Roger Howe  
(Ordway Visitor, Yale Univ.) 
Reciprocity Algebras in Invariant Theory, V, VI  
04/29,05/01   Roger Howe  
(Ordway Visitor, Yale Univ.) 
Reciprocity Algebras in Invariant Theory, VII, VIII  
   
(U. of Minnesota) 
 



Schedule of Fall, 2002

09/19   V. Protsak  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Standard monomials and representations of gl(n), part I 
09/26   V. Protsak  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Standard monomials and representations of gl(n), part II  
10/03   V. Protsak  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Standard monomials and representations of gl(n), part III  
10/10   Jens Funke 
(Fields Institute) 
On two geometric theta lifts 
10/17   Arthur Lim 
(U. of Minnesota) 
A Reduction Program for Semisimple Groups  
10/24   Pter Olver 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Lie Pseudogroups and Moving Frames, I (postponed) 
10/31   Peter Olver  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Lie Pseudogroups and Moving Frames, I  
11/07   Lizhen Ji 
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 
Compactifications of symmetric and locally symmetric spaces  
11/14   Willard Miller, Jr 
(U. of Minnesota) 
The Lie Theory Approach to Special Functions  
11/21   Dihua Jiang 
(U. of Minnesota) 
Unitary representations of GL(n)  
11/28   Thanksgiving 
(Minneapolis) 
TBA  
12/05   Willard Miller, Jr 
(U. of Minnesota) 
The Lie Theory Approach to Special Functions, II  
12/12   Peter Olver  
(U. of Minnesota) 
Lie Pseudogroups and Moving Frames, II  



Schedule of Spring, 2002

Feb. 4-28, Tue. and Thur. 2:30-3:30pm  
Ordway Lectures 
David Soudry 
(Tel Aviv University) 
Langlands functorial lift from classical groups to GL(n) 
March 7   A. Voronov
(U. of Minnesota)
Orbifold conformal algebras and completely reducible modules 
March 14  Jie Du 
(University of New South Wales and University of Virginia) 
Monomial bases for quantum affine sl_n 
March 21  Spring Break  Spring Break 
March 28  Wentang Kuo  
(Purdue University) 
Principal nilpotent orbits and reducible principal series 
April 4  Victor Protsak 
(U. of Minnesota)
Degenerate Principal Series and Multiplicity-freeness 
April 11  David Goldberg  
(Purdue University) 
The endoscopic norm map, and consequences for induced representations and $L$--functions 
April 18  Midwest Conference  Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms 
April 25  Chong Keat Arthur Lim 
(U. of Minnesota)  
Central positive definite measure and its associated unitary representation 
May 2  Erez Lapid 
(The Ohio State University) 
Regularization and inner product for Eisenstein series