Sum­mer School Re­duct­ive Groups

July 27 - August 7, 2015

Franken-Akademie Schloss Schney

Organizers:

• Bernhard Krötz
• Eric Opdam

Format:

• 5 lecture courses consisting of five one hour lectures each
• 4 additional short courses in week 2
• Concluding Conference in the second half of week two

Lecturers:

• Iain Gordon              Introduction to Deformation Quantization of Complex Symplectic Resolutions
• Erez Lapid                Introduction to the Trace Formula
• George Lusztig        Character Sheaves (all lectures in week one)
• Wolfgang Soergel    Motivic Categorification of the Hecke Algebra
• Peter Trapa               Introduction to Derived Functor Modules

Short Courses:

• Dan Barbasch          The (Spherical) Unitary Dual
• Dan Ciubotaru          Characters of Unipotent Discrete Series of Semisimple p-adic Groups
• Xuhua He                  Cocenter and Representations of Affine Hecke Algebras
• Eitan Sayag              Mixed Models for Representations

Special Lecture:

• Simon Gindikin       Complex Analysis on Symmetric Spaces

Conference Speakers:

• Dan Barbasch            Unipotent representations and the Theta-correspondence
• Dan Ciubotaru            Dirac cohomology of symplectic reflection groups
• Tobias Finis                Continuity of the geometric side of the trace formula
• Iain Gordon                Cells and cactus groups
• Simon Gindikin          Horospherical Transform for Discrete Series
• Jasmin Matz               Distribution of Hecke eigenvalues for GL(n)
• Guido Pezzini             Spherical subgroups of Kac-Moody groups
• Alexander Yom Din    A formula for the geometric Jacquet functor and its character sheaf analogue

Schedule

Participants

Practical Information:

• Arrival, Sunday July 26
• Departure, Saturday, August 8
• All local expenses (meals and room) covered

How to get there:

• By Airplane: We recommend the airports Munich or Frankfurt. From there you can continue your journey by train.
• By Train: Please check out your itinerary at Bahn.de for the rail destination "Lichtenfels". At Lichtenfels station there will be taxis available that will bring you to Schloss Schney.

 Excursions on the weekend:

• Saturday: Visit of the historic town Bamberg: guided tours, boat trip and dinner in the established brewhouse Schlenkerla. 
• Sunday: Long day hike to the Staffelstein with a stop at Vierzehnheiligen.

 --- Fully sponsored by ERC Advanced Investigators Grant HARG 268105 ---