Beyond endoscopy is the strategy put forward by Langlands for applying the trace formula to the general principle of functoriality. Subsequent papers by Langlands (one in collaboration with Frenkel and Ngo), together with more recent papers by Altug, have refined the strategy. They all emphasize the importance of understanding the elliptic terms on the geometric side of the trace formula. We shall discuss the general strategy, and how it pertains to these terms.[-]

Given a nilpotent Lie algebra over a characteristic zero field, one can construct a group in a universal way via the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. This integration procedure admits generalizations to dg Lie or L∞-algebras, giving in general ∞-groupoid of deformations that it encodes, as by the Lurie-Pridham correspondence, infinitesimal deformation problems are equivalent to dg Lie algebras. The recent work of Brantner-Mathew establishes a correspondence between infinitesimal deformation problems and partition Lie algebras over a positive characteristic field. In this talk, I will explain how to construct an analogue of the integration functor for certain point-set models of (spectral) partition Lie algebras, and how this integration functor can recover the associated deformation problem under some assumptions. Furthermore, I will discuss some applications of these constructions to unstable p-adic homotopy theory.[-]

Let G be a connected reductive p-adic group that splits over a tamely ramified extension. Let H be the fixed points of an involution of G. An irreducible smooth H-distinguished representation of G is H-relatively supercuspidal if its relative matrix coefficients are compactly supported modulo H Z(G). (Here, Z(G) is the centre of G.) We will describe some relatively supercuspidal representations whose cuspidal supports belong to the supercuspidals constructed by J.K. Yu.[-]