Unitary representations of groups, duals, and characters

Unitary dual and primitive dual -- Representations of locally compact abelian groups -- Examples of irreducible representations -- Finite dimensional irreducible representations -- Describing all irreducible representations of some semi-direct products -- Types for representations, quasi-duals, groups of type I -- Non type I groups -- Representations of C*-algebras and of LC groups, the Glimm theorem -- Examples of primitive duals -- Normal quasi-dual and characters -- Finite characters and Thoma's dual -- Examples of Thoma's duals -- The group measure space construction -- Construction of factor representations for some semi-direct products -- Separating families of finite type representations.