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1. # ProgramComplementary Program (2014-15)

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2. # ProgramNew Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms

Organizers: Pierre Colmez (L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), LEAD Wee Teck Gan (National University of Singapore), Michael Harris (L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), Ariane Mézard (L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University)

The branches of number theory most directly related to the arithmetic of automorphic forms have seen much recent progress, with the resolution of many longstanding conjectures. These breakthroughs have largely been achieved by the discovery of new geometric techniques and insights. The goal of this program is to highlight new geometric structures and new questions of a geometric nature which seem most crucial for further development. In particular, the program will emphasize geometric questions arising in the study of Shimura varieties, the p-adic Langlands program, and periods of automorphic forms.

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3. # ProgramGeometric Representation Theory

Organizers: LEAD David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas), Ngô Bảo Châu (University of Chicago), Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Florian Herzig (University of Toronto), Kevin McGerty (University of Oxford), David Nadler (University of California, Berkeley), Catharina Stroppel (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn), Eva Viehmann (TU München)

The fundamental aims of geometric representation theory are to uncover the deeper geometric and categorical structures underlying the familiar objects of representation theory and harmonic analysis, and to apply the resulting insights to the resolution of classical problems. One of the main sources of inspiration for the field is the Langlands philosophy, a vast nonabelian generalization of the Fourier transform of classical harmonic analysis, which serves as a visionary roadmap for the subject and places it at the heart of number theory. A primary goal of the proposed MSRI program is to explore the potential impact of geometric methods and ideas in the Langlands program by bringing together researchers working in the diverse areas impacted by the Langlands philosophy, with a particular emphasis on representation theory over local fields.

Another focus comes from theoretical physics, where new perspectives on the central objects of geometric representation theory arise in the study supersymmetric gauge theory, integrable systems and topological string theory. The impact of these ideas is only beginning to be absorbed and the program will provide a forum for their dissemination and development.

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4. # SeminarMSRI Evans Talk: The beginning of a local Langlands correspondance modulo $p$

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5. # SeminarChancellor Lecture on p-adic geometry

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6. # SeminarAuxiliary to the Chancellor Lecture

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7. # SeminarJoint Seminar: The geometric Satake in mixed characteristic and some applications.

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8. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

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9. # SeminarWorking Group on Irregular Singularities: Wild ramification and irregular singularities

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