Dear friends:
This week thanks to the Association of Women in Mathematics
(and the efforts of Neil Hoffman and Alessandra Costantini)
we have special talks by Professor Ju-Lee Kim of the Masschusetts
Institute of Technology. Professor Kim is a leader in representation
theory and automorphic forms.
She will be giving a number theory seminar
Local Langlands correspondence and (stable) Bernstein center
on Thursday at 3:30 PM in MSCS 514 aimed at grad students and faculty
and she will be giving a colloquium
Types in representation theory of p-adic groups
on Friday at 3:30 PM in MSCS 101 aimed at a genral math audience.
As an introduction to Professor Kim's are of study, our own Professor
Melissa Emory will give a special talk
The Langlands Program: A Grand Unified Theory
on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 3:30 PM in MSCS 514.
The Langlands Program is a vast system of conjectures (and now some
theorems) in group theory, number theory, rpresentation theory and many
related field put forth by Robert Langlands in the 1960's and 1970's.
Other opportunities to interact with Professor Kim during the week will be
announced later.
I hope you have a chance to take part in these talks.
Sincerely,
David Wright
