Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 15th of September 2004, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Finite Gel'fand pairs: (new) examples and applications

Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein of Universitá del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

We will present an introduction to finite Gelfand pairs stressing the important role they play both in non-commutative harmonic analysis and in probability. Several examples will be considered and a new construction which generalizes the previous examples will be presented. The talk will be completely self-contained and should be accesible to first year graduate students.