SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online: Nevins -- Characters and types: the personality of a representation of a p-adic group, revealed by branching to its compact open subgroups

SMRI Algebra and Geometry Online

’Characters and types: the personality of a representation of a p-adic group, revealed 
by branching to its compact open subgroups’
Monica Nevins (University of Ottawa)

Friday 26th February
10:00am - 11:30am (AEDT)

Online via Zoom

Abstract: The theory of complex representations of p-adic groups can feel very 
technical and unwelcoming, but its central role in the conjectural local Langlands 
correspondence has pushed us to pursue its understanding. In this talk, I will aim to 
share the spirit of, and open questions in, the representation theory of G, through the 
lens of restricting these representations to maximal compact open subgroups. Our point 
of departure: the Bruhat-Tits building of G, a 50-year-old combinatorial and geometric 
object that continues to reveal secrets about the structure and representation theory 
of G today.

Register:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd--uqj0iHNcugXMnXTmSQfZVh08zruaN


More about the speaker: https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnevins/

Note: These seminars will be recorded (participants only when asking questions), and
uploaded to the SMRI YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/SydneyMathematicalResearchInstituteSMRI