Francisco Villacis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"An Introduction to GIT Quotients"
Dongshu Dai, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The global loop space"
We will continue with section 3 of Kapranov and Vasserot's paper.
MC 5403
Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Restricted Zilber Trichotomy"
We will be reading Ben Castle’s paper.
MC 4060
Ada Chan, York University
"Complex Hadamard matrices and association schemes, Part 2"
This will be a continuation of Wednesday's lecture. We will discuss the properties of the association schemes of Hadamard graphs and their associated spin models.
MC 5403
Ada Chan, York University
"Complex Hadamard matrices and association schemes, Part 1"
Complex Hadamard matrices and spin models are special cases of type-II matrices. In the 1980s, Vaughan Jones used spin models to construct link invariants and representations of braid groups. The term type II was coined after the second Reidemeister move of link diagrams. In 1990s, Jaeger and Nomura discovered the surprising connection of spin models and association schemes.
J.C. Saunders, Middle Tennessee State University
"Primes and composites in the determinant Hosoya triangle"
Rachael Alvir, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Reverse Math I"
In this talk, we will give a preliminary introduction to reverse mathematics. We will be working from a recent book by Damir Dzhafarov and Carl Mummert.
MC 5403
Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Restricted Zilber Trichotomy"
We will be reading Ben Castle's paper.
MC 5479
Ben Webster, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Vertex algebras, arcs and loops, part 2"
I'll continue with vertex algebras, with an eye to how they arise in algebraic geometry through arc and loop spaces.
MC 5403
Talk #1: Logan Batson
"The density of integers n relatively prime to the integral part of nα"
We discuss the distribution of positive integers n that are relatively prime to the integral part of nα. We demonstrate that the density of such integers is 6/π2 by separating the cases when α is rational from when α is irrational and using some previous results of Vinogradov, Hardy and Wright.
Talk #2: Ismael El Yassini