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                   Abstract: 
                    Let $p$ be a prime number and $G$ a connected split reductive 
                    algebraic group over ${\mathbb Q}_p$ such that both $G$ and 
                    its dual $\widehat G$ have connected center. Let $\rho:{\rm 
                    Gal}(\overline {\mathbb Q}_p/{\mathbb Q}_p)\rightarrow \widehat 
                    G(E)$ be a continuous group homomorphism where $E$ is a finite 
                    extension of ${\mathbb Q}_p$. The aim of the $p$-adic Langlands 
                    program is to associate to (the conjugacy class of) $\rho$ 
                    some hypothetical $p$-adic Banach space(s) $\Pi(\rho)$ over 
                    $E$ endowed with a unitary continuous action of $G({\mathbb 
                    Q}_p)$ such that $\Pi(\rho)$ occurs in some completed cohomology 
                    groups when $\rho$ comes from some (pro)modular representation 
                    of a global Galois group.  
                     
                    Assume that $\rho$ takes values in a Borel subgroup $\widehat 
                    B(E)\subset \widehat G(E)$. I will explain how one can associate 
                    to such a (sufficiently generic) $\rho$ a Banach space $\Pi(\rho)^{\rm 
                    ord}$ endowed with a unitary continuous action of $G({\mathbb 
                    Q}_p)$ and which is expected to be a closed subrepresentation 
                    of $\Pi(\rho)$, namely its maximal closed subrepresentation 
                    where all irreducible constituents are subquotients of unitary 
                    continuous principal series. The representation $\Pi(\rho)^{\rm 
                    ord}$ decomposes as $\Pi(\rho)^{\rm ord}=\oplus_{w\in W(\rho)}\Pi(\rho)^{\rm 
                    ord}_w$ where $W(\rho)$ is a subset of the Weyl group $W$. 
                    One important point is that its construction is directly inspired 
                    by the study of the ``ordinary part'' of the tensor product 
                    of the fundamental algebraic representations of $\widehat 
                    G(E)$ (composed with $\rho$). 
                     
                    One can extend the construction of $\Pi(\rho)^{\rm ord}$ in 
                    characteristic $p$ and associate to a (sufficiently generic) 
                    $\overline\rho:{\rm Gal}(\overline {\mathbb Q}_p/{\mathbb 
                    Q}_p)\rightarrow \widehat B(k_E) \subset \widehat G(k_E)$ 
                    a smooth representation: 
                    $$\Pi(\overline\rho)^{\rm ord}=\oplus_{w\in W(\overline\rho)}\Pi(\overline\rho)^{\rm 
                    ord}_w$$ 
                    of $G({\mathbb Q}_p)$ over $k_E$ where $k_E$ is a finite extension 
                    of ${\mathbb F}_p$. When $G={\rm GL}_n$ and $\overline\rho$ 
                    comes from some modular Galois representation, I will explain 
                    how one can use recent results of Gee and Geraghty on ordinary 
                    Serre weights to prove that all ${\rm GL}_n({\mathbb Q}_p)$-representations 
                    $\Pi(\overline\rho)^{\rm ord}_w$ really do occur in spaces 
                    of automorphic forms modulo $p$ for definite unitary groups 
                    which are outer forms of ${\rm GL}_n$. 
                     
                    The first lecture will be largely introductory, in particular 
                    I will recall the situation for $G={\rm GL}_2$ and $\rho$ 
                    reducible as above. The second lecture will be devoted to 
                    the construction of $\Pi(\rho)^{\rm ord}$ and I will stress 
                    the parallel with the restriction to subgroups of $\widehat 
                    B(E)$ of the tensor product of the fundamental algebraic representations 
                    of $\widehat G(E)$. The last lecture will be devoted to the 
                    local-global compatibility result in characteristic $p$ mentioned 
                    above. 
                     
                    This is joint work with Florian Herzig. 
                   
                   
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                   Christophe Breuil is one of the leading international 
                    experts on p-adic Hodge theory and the p-adic 
                    Langlands program, two of the central topics of the thematic 
                    program. 
                     
                    In his thesis work, he introduced new p-adic Hodge 
                    theoretic techniques for studying p-adic representations 
                    of Galois groups of p-adic fields. The novelty of these 
                    techniques was that they applied to integral representations 
                    (i.e. for representations defined over Zp and 
                    not just over Qp) and to ramified 
                    p-adic fields. In 1999, Breuil joined with Brian Conrad, 
                    Fred Diamond, and Richard Taylor in applying these techniques 
                    to complete the proof of the modularity conjecture for elliptic 
                    curves over Q. 
                     
                    The detailed computations involved in the proof of the modularity 
                    conjecture led Breuil, together with Ariane Mezard, to formulate 
                    a fundamental conjecture (now called the BreuilMezard 
                    conjecture) which posits an intricate relationship between 
                    p-adic Hodge theory, the representation theory of the 
                    group GL2(Zp), and the 
                    deformation theory of 2-dimensional p-adic representations 
                    of Galois groups of p-adic Galois representations. 
                    This conjecture is in some sense a quantitative local analogue 
                    of the weight part of Serres celebrated conjecture on 
                    modularity of mod p-representations. 
                     
                    Taking the ideas underlying the BreuilMezard conjecture 
                    even further, Breuil then conjectured that there is a p-adic 
                    local Langlands correspondence relating 2-dimensional p-adic 
                    representations of the Galois group GQp 
                    and the p-adic representation theory of the group GL 
                    2(Qp). He 
                    laid out the fundamental properties that such a correspondence 
                    would have to satisfy, and in a series of papers gave compelling 
                    evidence that this correspondence would exist.  
                  Breuils ideas captured the imagination of number theorists 
                    working on p-adic Hodge theory and the arithmetic of 
                    automorphic forms, and over the course of the last decade 
                    the p-adic Langlands correspondence has emerged as 
                    one of the dominant themes in this area of number theory. 
                    The p-adic Langlands correspondence for GL 2(Qp).has 
                    been constructed in general by Pierre Colmez and Vytas Paskunas. 
                    It has been used by Mark Kisin and by Matthew Emerton to provide 
                    two different proofs of the FontaineMazur conjecture 
                    for odd 2-dimensional p-adic representations of GQ, 
                    with Kisin argument simultaneously establishing the BreuilMezard 
                    conjecture. All of this work serves to vindicate the deep 
                    and original vision of Breuil. 
                     
                    Breuil himself continues to pursue the construction of a p-adic 
                    Langlands correspondence, with the goal of moving beyond the 
                    case of GL2(Qp) 
                    to more general contexts. He has received several prizes and 
                    honours in recognition of the importance of his contributions 
                    to his field, including giving an invited talk at the 2010 
                    ICM in Hyderabad. 
                   
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