Our seminar is devoted to recent progress in the Langlands program and related problems. The central theme is representation-theoretic foundations for reductive groups over local and finite fields. Other topics include recent results on automorphic forms and representations, analytic and arithmetic properties of L-functions, as well as related results in geometry and harmonic analysis. We are inviting speakers representing diverse research communities from various institutes, and our goal is in stimulating dissemination of the results and exchanging their research visions.