Speaker: Erez Lapid, Hebrew University

Title: Base change and values of automorphic forms

Abstract:
The relative trace formula is a tool developed by Jacquet in order to study period integrals - especially in relation to functoriality. I will review the relative trace formula and its connection to a recent conjecture of Sarnak about L^infty norms of automorphic forms. This is joint work with Omer Offen.