Activities This Week

This is part 2 of 2 of an expanded version of the speaker’s talk from last semester.

The functoriality conjecture is a key ingredient in the theory of automorphic forms and the Langlands program. Given two reductive groups G and H, the principle of functoriality asserts that a map r:G^->H^ between their dual complex groups should naturally give rise to a map r*:Rep(G)->Rep(H) between their automorphic representations. In this talk, I will describe the idea of functoriality, its connection to L-functions and recent work on weak functorial lifts to the exceptional group of type G_2.

We apply the Tur\´an sieve and the simple sieve developed by Ram Murty and Yu-Ru Liu to study problems in random graph theory. More specifically, we obtain bounds on the probability of a graph having diameter 2 (or diameter 3 in the case of bipartite graphs). An interesting feature revealed in these results is that the Tur´an sieve and the simple sieve “almost completely” complement to each other. This is joint work with Yu-Ru Liu.