Olivetti Club
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 4:30pm
Malott 406
Gelfand pairs arise in the study of Riemannian symmetric spaces and the examples that arise in this way are the most widely studied and best understood. They also arise from the study of semidirect products of compact Lie groups with two-step nilpotent Lie groups. Recently there has been some work on understanding finite Gelfand pairs associated to Heisenberg groups over finite fields. We will see what these finite Gelfand pairs are and how their properties mimic the other known examples. All the required terminology will be introduced in the talk and no previous knowledge of Gelfand pairs is necessary.
Refreshments will be served in the lounge at 4:00 PM.