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News
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.
Pure Math PhD student wins Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching
The award ($1000), which is given to up to four recipients annually, recognizes excellence in teaching by students, including intellectual vigour, skill in communication and presentation of subject matter, and concern for the needs of students.
Spring 2023 Graduands
Congratulations to Clement Wan, MMath and Eric Boulter, PhD, who convocated in Spring 2023. Best of luck in your future endeavours!
Events
Logic Seminar
Andy Zucker
Topological groups with tractable minimal dynamics
For Polish groups, there are several interesting dividing lines in how complicated their minimal flows can be. While metrizability of the universal minimal flow is the most obvious, a theorem of Ben Yaacov, Melleray, and Tsankov suggests the broader class of Polish groups whose universal minimal flows have a comeager orbit. In joint work with Gianluca Basso, we find natural extensions of these classes to general topological groups, obtaining the classes of topological groups with ``concrete minimal dynamics'' or ``tractable minimal dynamics,'' respectively. Both classes admit a wide variety of non-trivial characterizations. In particular, the class of groups with tractable minimal dynamics is the largest class of topological groups admitting any form of KPT correspondence, allowing us to show that this class is absolute between models of set theory.
MC 5479
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Spiro Karigiannis
Organizational Meeting
We will meet to plan out the Differential Geometry Working Seminar for the Fall 2024 term.
MC 5479