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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
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Evan Sundbo, University of Waterloo
Broken Toric Varieties and Balloon Animal Maps
We will see the definition and some examples of broken toric varieties and balloon animal maps between them. After an overview of some of the many different areas in which they appear, we look at how their geometry can be studied via complexes of sheaves on an associated complex of polytopes. This yields results such as a version of the Decomposition Theorem and some explicit formulas for dimensions of rational cohomology groups of broken toric varieties.
MC 5417
Pure math Grad colloquium
Open Mic
Come listen to or contribute a minitalk (no longer than 15 minutes). Anything (as long as it vaguely relates tomathematics and is reasonably accessible) goes!
MC 5479
(Refreshments will start at 16:30)
Number Theory Seminar
Matthew Young, Rutgers University
The shifted convolution problem for Siegel modular forms
The shifted convolution problem for Fourier coefficients of cusp forms has seen a lot of attention due to applications towards moments of L-functions and the subconvexity problem. However, the problem for higher rank automorphic forms (beyond GL_2) has been a notorious bottleneck towards progress on the sixth moment of the Riemann zeta function. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress on the problem for Siegel cusp forms on Sp_4. This is joint work with Wing Hong (Joseph) Leung.