Conference on automorphic forms and the trace formula,
in honour of James Arthur on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Tentative Schedule of Talks -- abstracts
Audio of talks (Wed only ) Audio and Video recordings (Thurs-Sat)

Wednesday, October 13
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Registration and coffee
:9:00-9:15 a.m.	Introductions & announcements
9:15-10:15 a.m.	Robert Kottwitz, Chicago Arthur's work on the trace formula
10:30-11:30 a.m.	Gerard Laumon, Paris, Orsay The Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups (I)
11:45-12:45	Bao Chau Ngo, Paris 13 The Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups (II)
Lunch
2:15-3:15 p.m.	Jean-Pierre Labesse, Paris 7 Norm map for twisted endoscopy
3:30-4:30 p.m.	Michael Rapoport, Bonn Local models of Shimura varieties
5:00-7:00 p.m.	Reception, Gallery Grill, Hart House, 2nd floor, east end hosted by Mathematics Department , Univ. of Toronto
Thursday, October 14
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Coffee
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv Subconvexity estimates and representation theory
10:15-11:15 a.m.	David Kazhdan, The Hebrew University On endoscopic decomposition of certain weight zero representations
11:30-12:30	Jean-Loup Waldspurger, Paris 7 Identites de caracteres entre representations de SO(2n+1) et de GL(2n) tordu
Lunch
2:00-3:00 p.m.	Robert Langlands, IAS The trace formula and the theory of numbers
3:15-4:15 p.m.	Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue Infinite dimensional groups and automorphic L-functions
Break
5:00-6:00 p.m.	Stephen DeBacker, Michigan Murnaghan-Kirillov theory for depth zero supercuspidal representations
Friday, October 15
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Coffee
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Erez Lapid, The Hebrew University Explicit trace identities
10:15-11:15 a.m.	David Vogan, M.I.T. Arthur packets and unitary representations
11:30-12:30	Laurent Clozel, Paris South Arthur's conjectures, restriction principle, and mysterious functorialities
Lunch
2:00-3:00 p.m.	Thomas Haines, Maryland Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure
3:15-4:15 p.m.	Werner Muller, Bonn The trace formula and spectral theory of automorphic forms
6:00-7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.	Conference Reception and Banquet
Saturday, October 16
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Coffee
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Henry Kim, Toronto Functoriality for unitary groups
10:15-11:15 a.m.	Peter Sarnak, Princeton Some analytic applications of the trace and related formulae
11:30-12:30	William Casselman, British Columbia Truncation and buildings

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