The 21st series of Lectures will be given by
Place & Time: April 7, 9, 10. Neville Hall III, 4:10 pm, Monday and
Thursday; Neville Hall II Wednesday.
Tea, preceeding the Lecture: 3:30 Christmas-Saucon Hall, Room 107. For more information call 610-758-3731.
Abstract: The theory of automorphic forms offers
the promise of classifying basic arithmetic objects in terms of analytic
data. This is summarized in Langland's conjectural principle
of functoriality. We shall begin with a review of this principle.
We shall then discuss the (hypothetical) universal groups that are thought
to govern fundamental process in automorphic forms and algebraic geometry.
As time permits, we shall then give an introduction to the trace formula,
as an important technique for analyzing the conjectural properties of
automorphic representations.
The Pitcher lectures are held in honor of Everett Pitcher, who served in Lehigh's Department of Mathematics from 1938 until 1978, when he retired as Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He was secretary of the American Mathematical Society from 1967 until 1988.
Pitcher Lecture Series
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
14 E. Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015
http://www.lehigh.edu/~math/pitcher.html