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News
A Lasting Legacy in Pure Mathematics
Read about why Sara Kannan (BA '16) established the Dr. P. L. Kannappan Memorial Scholarship!
Pure Mathematics professor honoured with Distinguished Teacher Award
Pure Math Professor Yu-Ru Liu has been honoured with the University of Waterloo’s Distinguished Teacher Award, 2026.
Join us in congratulating Professor Liu and read more here!
Pure Math Department celebrates outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistants at awards ceremony
On November 3, the department of Pure Mathematics held its Graduate Teaching and Teaching Assistant Awards Ceremony, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of its remarkable graduate students
Events
Differential Geometry Working Seminar | Facundo Camano | Classifying ALF Gravitational Instantons of Cyclic Type
Facundo Camano, University of Waterloo
Classifying ALF Gravitational Instantons of Cyclic Type
I will go over the paper ”Rigidity for Multi-Taub-NUT Metrics” by Vincent Minerbe.
MC 5417
Differential Geometry Working Seminar | Benoit Charbonneau | The Dirac operator on homogeneous manifolds
Benoit Charbonneau, University of Waterloo
The Dirac operator on homogeneous manifolds
MC 5417
Computability Learning Seminar | Joey Lakerdas-Gayle | Dominant functions and high sets
Joey Lakerdas-Gayle, University of Waterloo
Dominant functions and high sets
We prove Martin's theorem that \(A'\geq_T\emptyset''\) if and only if $A$ computes a function that bounds every total computable function almost everywhere. Then we will begin discussing the infinite injury priority tree construction of Sacks' theorem that there exists a high incomplete c.e. set.
MC 5403