Contact Info
Pure MathematicsUniversity of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x43484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
Friday, November 30, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Chun Kit Lai, McMaster University
"Fourier frames on general measure spaces"
Motivated from the Fuglede conjecture and the discovery of exponential
orthonormal basis on the one-fourth Cantor measure, but not for the
one-third one, there has been interest in understanding the kind of
measures that admit some exponential type bases and their relatives such
as Fourier frames and Riesz bases. By decomposing the measure into
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — 4:30 PM EST
Ian Payne, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"I Can't Get No (Constraint) Satisfaction"
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Jerry Wang, Harvard University
"Pencils of quadrics and 2-Selmer groups of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves"
Since Bhargava and Shankar's new method of counting orbits, average orders of the 2,3,4,5-Selmer groups of elliptic curves over Q have been obtained. In this talk we will look at a construction of torsors of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves using pencils of quadrics and see how they are used to compute the average order of the 2-Selmer groups of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves over Q with a rational (non-)Weierstrass point.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — 2:30 PM EST
Ross Willard, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Larose's theorem"
Putting together some of the machinery developed this term, I will prove Larose’s Theorem: if X is a finite, connected reflexive digraph and X admits a Taylor operation, then for every k ≥ 1, the k-th homotopy group of X is trivial.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 — 11:00 AM EST
Cassie Naymie, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Roth’s theorem on finite abelian groups”
Monday, November 26, 2012 — 4:00 PM EST
Jeffrey Shallit, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
"Rational numbers and automata"
In this talk, I will describe a new model for describing certain sets S of rational numbers using finite automata. We will see that it is decidable if every element of S is an integer, and that sup S is computable. However, closely related questions are still open. There are applications to combinatorics on words.
Refreshments will be served in MC 5046 at 3:30pm. All are welcome.
Friday, November 23, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Kai-Cheong Chan, University of Waterloo
“On tensor products of digraph algebras over pre-ordered groups ”
Thursday, November 22, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Timothy Caley, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"A new algorithm for the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem"
Abstract: Given natural numbers n and k, the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott (PTE)
asks for integers x_1,..,x_n and y_1,...,y_n such that the sums of the
first k powers are equal. This problem has connections to combinatorics
and theoretical computer science, as well as to other areas of number
Thursday, November 22, 2012 — 2:30 PM EST
Carrie Knoll, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Idempotent operations in reflexive digraphs”
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Jessie Yang, McMaster University
Tropical Severi Varieties”
Friday, November 16, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Nico Spronk, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"On the subalgebra of a Fourier-Stieltjes algebra generated by pure positive definite functions"
Abstract: For a locally compact group $G$, Yin-Hei Cheng considered the closed subspace $a_0(G)$ which is generated by the pure positive definite
Thursday, November 15, 2012 — 2:30 PM EST
Peter Sinclair, University of Waterloo
"Auxiliary Results on Homotopy Groups and Digraphs"
Abstract: Two weeks ago, we defined a digraph $F^k(X,x_0)$, whose vertices were a particular set of homomorphisms, and a group $\sigma_k(X,x_0)$, whose elements were connected components of $F^k(X,x_0)$. This week, we will begin looking at these structures in more detail.
Monday, November 12, 2012 — 4:00 PM EST
Dima Sinapova, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Powers of singular cardinals"
Friday, November 9, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Mehdi Monfared, University of Windsor
“Involutions and Trivolutions on Second Dual Algebras”
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 — 3:30 PM EST
Graham Denham, Western University
“Duality properties for abelian covers”
Friday, November 2, 2012 — 3:30 PM EDT
Mehdi Radjabalipour, Iranian Academy of Sciences
“Algebraic frames”
Thursday, November 1, 2012 — 2:30 PM EDT