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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
Pure Mathematics Colloquium | Hunter Sprink | Forest polynomials and quasisymmetry
Hunter Sprink (University of Toronto)
Forest polynomials and quasisymmetry
In this talk I will introduce the combinatorics behind some new connections between the classical notion of quasisymmetry in algebraic combinatorics to the geometry of the flag variety.
MC 5501
Algebra Seminar | Tariq Syed | Vector bundles over topologically contractible smooth affine complex varieties
Tariq Syed (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Vector bundles over topologically contractible smooth affine complex varieties
A smooth complex variety X is called topologically contractible if its set of complex points, viewed as a complex manifold with analytic topology, is a contractible topological space. The primordial examples of topologically contractible smooth affine complex varieties are given by affine spaces. The generalized Serre question on algebraic vector bundles asks whether algebraic vector bundles over topologically contractible smooth affine complex varieties are always trivial. In this talk, we survey classical results and highlight the most recent developments on this problem.
MC 5479