Simran Khunger

I am a third year mathematics Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am interested in representation theory and the Langlands program.

  • Email address: skhunger at umich dot edu


Notes

Here are notes I helped write on Out(F_n) in a class with Professor Alex Wright in Fall 2023.

Seminars

1. In Winter 2025, I organized a reading group on representations of p-adic groups in preparation for the 2025 Arizona Winter School.

Winter 2025 Number Theory Reading Group Information (click underlined text for details)

Topic: Representations of p-adic groups

Here is the UM Seminar Webpage. We meet weekly on Wednesdays at 10-11AM in East Hall B745 for a student talk and discussion. During the week, we branch off into small groups to do the weekly readings.

Schedule:

  • Week 1: Organizational Meeting
  • Week 2: Charlotte Chan's notes
  • Week 3: Jessica Fintzen's notes
  • Week 4: Florian Herzig's notes
  • Week 5: Tasho Kaletha's notes


2. In Fall 2023, I organized a reading group on automorphic representations at UM.

Fall 2023 Number Theory Reading Group Information (click underlined text for details)

Topic: Automorphic Representations

Here is the UM Seminar Webpage. We meet weekly on Fridays at 12-1PM in East Hall 3088 for a student talk and discussion. During the week, we branch off into small groups to do the weekly readings.

Here are the resources we will be using for the seminar. We will primarily be using Getz-Hahn.
  • Getz-Hahn, An introduction to automorphic representations
  • Gelbart, Automorphic Forms on Adele Groups

Schedule:

  • Week 1 (9/1-9/8): §1.2, §1.3, §1.4 §1.5; Speaker: Lukas Scheiwiller
  • Week 2: §1.6, §1.7, §1.8, §1.9; Speaker: Kaya Lakein
  • Week 3: §2.1, §2.2, §2.3; Speaker: Simran Khunger
  • Week 4: §2.4, §2.5; Speaker: Lukas Scheiwiller
  • Week 5: §3.1, §3.2; Speaker: Ritwick Bhargava, Gahl Shemy
  • Week 6: §3.3, §3.4, §3.5, §3.6; Speaker: Ram Ekstrom
  • Week 7: §3.7, §3.8; Speaker: canceled
  • Week 8: §3.7, §3.8, §4.1, §4.2, §4.3; Speaker: na
  • Week 9: §4.3, §4.4, §4.5; Speaker: Ram Ekstrom
  • Week 10: §6.1, §6.2, §6.3; Speaker: Alex Bauman
  • Week 11: §6.5, §6.6, §6.7, §6.8; Speaker: Ming Yean Lim, Ritwick Bhargava