Mahdi Asgari

Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics
588 Malott Hall
(607) 255-3536

Ph.D. (2000) Purdue University

Research Area

number theory, automorphic forms, and representations

My research interests lie in the areas of automorphic representations and L-functions. These are basic objects of study in modern number theory. My research has been mostly in the Langlands-Shahidi method, which uses techniques from representation theory and analysis to answer questions in number theory and vice versa. Recently, I have also been working on problems related to the Arthur-Selberg trace formula and its applications.

Selected Publications

Local L-functions for split Spinor groups, Canad. J. Math. 54 no. 4 (2002), 673–693.

Siegel modular forms and representations (with R. Schmidt), manuscripta math. 104 no. 2 (2001), 173–200.

Generic transfer for general spin groups (with F. Shahidi), Duke Math. J. 132 no. 1 (2006), 137–190.

Generic transfer from GSp(4) to GL(4) (with F. Shahidi), Compos. Math. 142 no. 3 (2006), 541–550.

On generic representation of the p-adic GSp(4) (with R. Schmidt), J. Number Theory 128 no. 8 (2008), 2340–2358.

A cuspidality criterion for the exterior square transfer of cusp forms on GL(4) (with A. Raghuram), Clay Mathematics Proceedings 13 (2011), 33–53.