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News
53rd annual COSY conference a success
More than 100 researchers and students from across Canada and around the world attended the 53rd annual Canadian Operator Algebras Symposium (COSY), which took place from May 26-30 at the University of Waterloo.
Pure Math Department celebrates undergraduate achievement at awards tea
On March 24, the department of Pure Mathematics held its annual Undergraduate Awards Tea, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of its remarkable undergraduate students.
Two Pure Math professors win Outstanding Performance Awards
The awards are given each year to faculty members across the University of Waterloo who demonstrate excellence in teaching and research.
Events
Computability Learning Seminar
Joey Lakerdas-Gayle, University of Waterloo
Effective Algebra 5
We will continue learning about computable Abelian groups following the monograph by Downey and Melnikov.
MC 5501
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Paul Cusson, University of Waterloo
Vector bundles over a complex torus
We will cover basic results about the complex geometry of a complex torus X, followed by a discussion of holomorphic vector bundles over X. An immediate result due to Hodge theory is the existence of complex bundles that don't admit holomorphic structures when the complex dimension of X is at least 2. We will thus focus on bundles whose Chern classes lie in the diagonal of the Hodge diamond and ask which ones can be holomorphic.
MC 5403
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Kaleb Ruscitti, University of Waterloo
Embedding a family of moduli spaces of SL(2,C) bundles into projective spaces
The moduli space of polystable degree-0 SL(2,C) bundles on a compact connected Riemann surface of genus g>=2 is a Kähler manifold, and an open subset of the moduli space of semi-stable bundles, which is a projective variety of dimension 3g-3. Biswas and Hurtubise constructed a toric degeneration of this moduli space, meaning a family of moduli spaces over C whose fiber over 0 is a toric variety. The toric variety has a moduli interpretation as a space of framed parabolic bundles.
In this talk, I will describe the family and then describe how one can embed the entire family into P^N x C. This is the key step in a current project I am working on, about relating different geometric quantizations of the moduli space of SL(2,C) bundles.
MC 5403