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News
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
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.
Events
PhD Seminar
Yash Singh, University of Waterloo
Buildings of reductive groups.
We study an algebraic construction of the spherical building of the reductive group due to Halpern-Leistner and a connection between this construction and the classification of toric vector bundles by Kiaveh-Manon.
MC 5403
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Caleb Suan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hull-Strominger Systems and Geometric Flows
The Hull-Strominger system is a system of partial differential equations stemming from heterotic string theory in physics. Mathematically, these equations lead us to consider special structures with torsion and have been proposed as a natural generalization of the Ricci-flat condition on non-Kahler Calabi-Yau threefolds. In this talk, we discuss a geometric flow approach to the system, known as the anomaly flow. We shall also look at 7-dimensional analogues of the system and flow.
MC 5417
Algebraic geometry working seminar
Catherine St-Pierre, University of Waterloo
Why does the Spec functor not extend to non-commutative rings?
The functor Spec, which assigns to a commutative ring its prime spectrum, plays a central role in algebraicgeometry. A natural question is whether this construction can be extended in a meaningful way tononcommutative rings. In this talk, we discuss the obstruction to the extension of the functor Spec to non-commutative rings presented by Manuel L. Reyes, showing that any functor extending Spec and satisfyingreasonable compatibility conditions must collapse on certain noncommutative rings, such as matrix algebras$M_3(\mathbb C)$.
MC 5417