Wed, January 9, 2019
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- Time:
- 4:00pm
- Location:
- Ramanujan Hall, Department of Mathematics
- Description:
- Speaker: Prof. Ramesh Gangoli, University of Washington.
Time: 4pm, Wednesday, 9th January.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall.
Title: Some unpublished work of Harish-Chandra.
Abstract:
When Harish-Chandra died in 1983, he left behind a voluminous pile of
handwritten manuscripts on harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups over
real/complex and p-adic fields. The manuscripts were turned over to the
archives of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and are
archived there.
Robert Langlands is the Trustee of the Harish- Chandra archive, and has
always been interested in finding a way of salvaging whatever might be
valuable in these manuscripts. Some years ago, at a conference in UCLA, he
asked if V. S. Varadarajan and I might look at some of these.
The results of our efforts have resulted in the publication of the Volume
5 (Posthumous) of the Collected works of Harish-Chandra by Springer
Verlag.
My talk will be devoted to a bare outline of the results in this volume,
without much detail, but I will try to convey some information about the
key method used in the work.