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Wednesday, 11 December, 16-18 MEB331

A formula to trace a trace formula, by Martin Mereb.

This is the story of how we found the number of solutions of certain equations (over finite fields) related to the computation of the E-polynomials of the Wild Character Varieties. Featuring Hecke, Iwahori and Yokonuma as guest characters. Joint work with T. Hausel and M. Wong.