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Friday, April 20, 2012 4pm PHSC 1105
Tea will be served at 3:30pm in PHSC 424.
Abstract I will describe a conjectural picture about how certain periods of automorphic forms are related to L-functions. Then I will outline a novel approach to the relative trace formula which gives a new proof of a special case of these conjectures: Waldspurger periods over tori for PGL(2) and its inner forms.