Ragini Singhal, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Deformation theory of nearly $\rm{G}_2$-structures and nearly $\rm{G}_2$ instantons"
Spencer Whitehead, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"A brief introduction to characteristic classes"
Padraig Daly, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Quantum Superchannels"
Daren Cheng, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The second variation of area of minimal surfaces in four-manifolds (Part 2)"
Max Chemtov, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Subalgebras of so(7) Induced by the Coassociative 4-Form on R^7"
Consider the 2-forms on R^7 resulting from evaluating the coassociative 4-form on two vectors. It turns out that, when such vectors are restricted to an associative 3-plane P, these 2-forms along with those in Λ^2(P) give a subalgebra of so(7) isomorphic to so(3) ♁ so(3). After giving some brief context, we will discuss this fact and characterize the intersections of such subalgebras for different choices of P.
Ryan Clemmer and Sarah DeDecker, University of Guelph
"Designing Assessments to Encourage Problem Analysis"
Sean Monahan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Divisors on toric varieties"
I will continue from the last few talks on divisors by highlighting some important features of the toric case. The focus will be on torus invariant divisors and tools for computing the class group and Picard group of toric varieties.
Zoom meeting:
Adina Goldberg, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Quantum Arrows"
Nolan Pyott, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Counting Primes using Seldberg's Sieve"
Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Metric compatible connections in dimension 3"