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Further reading 

For the material from Lecture D1 there are the following sources: 

• Persi Diaconis, Group representations in probability and statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes—Monograph Series, 11. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward, CA, 1988. (MR0964069)
• Martin Liebeck, Applications of character theory of finite simple groups. Local representation theory and simple groups, 323–352, EMS Ser. Lect. Math., Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich, 2018. (MR3821142)

For Course C there is the following book which contains relevant short survey articles: 

Carter, R., & Geck, M. (Eds.). (1998). Representations of Reductive Groups (Publications of the Newton Institute). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600623 

This would also be useful for Course A as well. 

More detailed texts for this course would be: 

• Roger W. Carter, Finite groups of Lie type. Conjugacy classes and complex characters. Pure and Applied Mathematics (New York). A Wiley-Interscience Publication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1985. (MR 0794307)
• François Digne and Jean Michel, Representations of finite groups of Lie type. Second edition. London Mathematical Society Student Texts, 95. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020. (MR 4211777)
• Meinolf Geck and Gunter Malle, The character theory of finite groups of Lie type. A guided tour. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 187. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020.

There one will find complete proofs and more detailed statements of results.

For Character Theory:

• I. M. Isaacs, Character Theory of Finite Groups, Academic Press, 1976.
• G. James, M. Liebeck, Representations and characters of Groups, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• G. Navarro, Character theory and the McKay conjecture, Cambridge University Press, 2018.