I will survey what is known about the distribution of the orders of integers mod $p$, as $p$ varies. Particular attention will be paid to problems of the following sort: For fixed $a$ and $b$, how do the order of $a$ mod $p$ and the order of $b$ mod $p$ compare, as $p$ varies? The proofs will draw from the elementary, algebraic, and analytic strands of number theory. (So hopefully something for everyone!)

Après avoir introduit le groupe des transformations birationnelles du plan projectif complexe, j’en donnerai quelques propriétés en faisant un parallèle avec les groupes linéaires.

On a surface M with strict negative curvature given two closed curves $c_1,c_2$, the Poincaré series is a complex function counting orthogeodesic arcs joining the two curves, in the same way the Riemann zeta function counts the primes. I will first discuss the meromorphic continuation of the Poincaré series and when the curves are homologically trivial, I will explain why the value at 0 is a well–defined rational number which can be interpreted as linking of Legendrian knots. A corollary of our result is that for any pair of points (x,y) in M x M, the lenghts of the geodesics joining the two points determine the genus of M.

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13:45 – 14:40: Alessandra IOZZI (ETH Zürich)

 The real spectrum compactification of character varieties: characterizations and applications

We describe properties of a compactification of general character varieties with good topological properties and give various interpretations of its ideal points. We relate this to the Thurston-Parreau compactification and apply our
results to the theory of maximal representations.

This is a joint work with Marc Burger, Anne Parreau and Maria Beatrice Pozzetti.

15:00 – 15:55: Raphaël BEUZART-PLESSIS (Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS)

Multipliers and isolation of the cuspidal spectrum by convolution operators

Let $G$ be a real reductive algebraic group and $\Gamma$; be an arithmetic lattice of $G$.
In this talk, I will explain how to generalize a construction of Lindenstrauss-Venkatesh giving rise to certain operators on $L^2(\Gamma\backslash G)$ with image in the cuspidal subspace. These operators can be written, in the adelic setting, as combinations of convolution operators at Archimedean places and $p$-adic places (Hecke operators). A crucial ingredient of the proof is the existence of sufficiently many multipliers of $G$ acting on the space of smooth functions with rapid decay (but not necessarily $K$-finite).
Time permitting, I will also describe one application of this construction to the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture for unitary groups.
This talk is based on joint work with Yifeng Liu, Wei Zhang and Xinwen Zhu.

16:15 – 17:10: Erik VAN DEN BAN (University of Utrecht)

The Harish-Chandra transform for Whittaker functions

 I will discuss the role of the descent transform in Harish-Chandra’s approach to the Plancherel formula for Whittaker functions, presented in the posthumous volume 5 of his collected works (Springer 2018). At an earlier occasion I explained how the proof of the Plancherel theorem can be completed by using a Paley-Wiener shift technique. In the present talk I will explain how the proof can be completed in a more straightforward way, by using a suitable result on wave packets of Whittaker functions.

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We consider a Dirac system confined to a bounded domain in the plane. This amounts to a family of boundary conditions. There are two extreme cases, zig-zig and Infinite-mass boundary conditions. Consider a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. I will present results on accurate asymptotics of the energy spectrum of the underlying Hamiltonian in the strong magnetic field limit. We will compare the results for different boundary conditions.

(This is based on joint collaboration with Jean-Marie Barbaroux, Loic Le Treust and Nicolas Raymond)

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We first describe an efficient algorithm to compute
$L’/L(1,\chi)$, where $\chi$ is a non-principal Dirichlet character
mod q, and q is an odd prime. We then discuss
some results on the distribution of
$m_q := \min_{\chi\ne \chi_0} \vert L’/L(1,\chi) \vert $
and about the Euler-Kronecker constants for cyclotomic fields.

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