Fusion 2-Categories and their Classification

AQFT Lecture Series Speaker: John Francis (Northwestern) Title: Integrating braided categories over 3-manifolds Abstract: I’ll describe a form of factorization homology, which gives an invariant of framed 3-manifolds given as input a rigid braided-monoidal category with duals. More generally, the construction gives an invariant of framed n-manifolds from an E_{n-1}-monoidal category with duals. This construction relies […]

AQFT Lecture Series Speaker: Dihua Jiang (U Minnesota) Title: Shalika Periods: Functoriality and Arithmetic Abstract: Shalika periods of automorphic forms were first used by H. Jacquet and J. Shalika (1990) in their construction of global zeta integrals for exterior square L-functions of GL(2n). They were also used by S. Friedberg and H. Jacquet (1993) in […]

AQFT Lecture Series Speaker: Baiying Liu (Purdue) Title: Recent progress on certain problems related to local Arthur packets of classical groups Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce recent progress on certain problems related to local Arthur packets of classical groups. First, I will introduce a joint work with Freydoon Shahidi towards Jiang's conjecture on the wave […]

AQFT Lecture Series Speaker: Tasho Kaletha (University of Michigan) Title: Covers of reductive groups and functoriality Abstract: When studying problems arising from Langlands' functoriality principle, one often encounters groups that are extensions of complex reductive groups by Galois groups, but that do not necessarily satisfy all properties to be L-groups of reductive groups. We will show, […]

AQFT Lecture Series Speaker: Xinwen Zhu (Stanford) Title: The tame categorical local Langlands correspondence. Abstract: I will discuss a conjectural categorical form of the local Langlands correspondence for p-adic groups and establish the tame part of such correspondence (currently for unramified groups with connected center, and for Q_l-coefficients). I will also explain how to extract a […]