Michael Whittaker, University of Glasgow
"Self-similarity of substitution tiling semigroups"
Kaleb D. Ruscitti, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Toric degeneration of the moduli space of holomorphic SL(2,C)-bundles over a Riemann Surface"
Jérémy Champagne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Yet another proof of the Riemann hypothesis"
In the last few months, I have developed a hobby, which is to find proofs (or disproofs?!) of the Riemann hypothesis. In this talk, I will be sharing some of my favourite ones!
MC 5417
M. Ram Murty, Queen's University
"Arithmetical Functions of Several Variables"
We will survey several results in the theory of arithmetical functions of several variables, a subject that is not often treated in number theory textbooks though it should be!
MC 5501
Xiao Zhong, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Limit Distribution of Small Points on Algebraic Tori"
**Note special time for this talk**
Chatchai Noytaptim, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Arithmetic Dynamical Questions with Local Rationality Conditions"
M. Ram Murty, Queen's University
"Brain Network Hubs and Markov Processes"
A new chapter of interdisciplinary research between neuroscience and graph theory has emerged in the last 20 years. In recent joint work with neuroscientist A. N. Prasad, we proposed a model using graph theory and Markov chains to identify "brain hubs" in the neural networks of organisms. We will survey this work and underline some future directions. The talk will be accessible to a general audience.
MC 5501
Shaun Allison, University of Toronto
"Treeable CBERS are classifiable by an abelian Polish group"
Organizational Meeting
We will discuss/determine the time this seminar will be held this term as well as determine the first set of speakers. This seminar will follow a portion of the book "3264 and all that: the second course in algebraic geometry" by Eisenbud and Harris. A co-organizer (Changho) will also give a brief teaser of the seminar, as well as explain how to read the book (and prepare the talks).
M3 4206
William Gollinger, University of Waterloo
"Handles II"
This week we continue the discussion of handles, moving on to handle decompositions of smooth manifolds. We briefly describe how Morse Theory ensures the existence of handle decompositions, and give some particular examples. We discuss in some detail the notions of dual decompositions, handle cancellations, and handle slides.
MC 5403