Remarks on modular representations of finite groups of Lie type in   non-defining characteristic
  Let $G$ be a finite group of Lie type and $\ell$ be a prime which is not equal to the defining characteristic of $G$. In this note we discuss some open problems concerning the $\ell$-modular irreducible representations of $G$. We also establish a strengthening of the results in [13] on the classification of the $\ell$-modular principal series representations of $G$. 
Meinolf Geck
math.RT