This is the website for a learning seminar on the book Periods and Harmonic Analysis on Spherical Varieties by Sakellaridis--Venkatesh, held in Fall 2022. The syllabus (last updated Oct 5) can be found here.
Time and Place: Wednesday 17:00-19:00 at Fine 322
Talk 0: Organizational meeting (Marco and Eric, Sept 28).
Talk 1: Introduction to spherical varieties (Eric, Oct 5).
Talk 2: Dual group of spherical variety (Marco and Linus, Oct 12).
Fall Break (no meeting)
Talk 3: Examples (Trajan, Oct 26).
Talk 4: Lax--Phillips Scattering (Vikram, Maybe Nov 3).
Talk 5: