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
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 — 3:50 PM EST
Cancelled - will be rescheduled for January 2014
Bianca Santoro, The City College of New York
“Complete Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on resolutions of singularities”
Abstract
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 4:00 PM EST
Elena Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley
"Thin groups: arithmetic and beyond"
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 2:30 PM EST
Tom Lenagan, University of Edinburgh
“Totally nonnegative matrices”
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — 1:30 PM EST
Diarmuid Crowley, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
“A new invariant of G2 structures”
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 — 1:30 PM EST
**Postponed until January, 2014**
Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Introduction to octonions, G2, F4, and triality (I)"
We will be discussing some notes by Shingo Murukami (available online) on exceptional Lie groups (particularly G2 and F4) and their relations to the octonions, including the notion of triality. This will be the first of at least two parts.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 — 10:30 AM EST
Ian Payne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“More Preliminaries for the Proof of the Bounded Width Conjecture”
Monday, December 2, 2013 — 4:00 PM EST
Matthew Kennedy, Carleton University
“Operator algebraic geometry”
Friday, November 29, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Ping Wong Ng, University of Louisiana
"Sums of projections in certain simple purely infinite C*-algebras”
Friday, November 29, 2013 — 2:30 PM EST
Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Varieties with a difference term. III”
I will complete the proof that a certain syntactic condition characterizes the class of varieties having a difference term.
Thursday, November 28, 2013 — 4:30 PM EST
Michael Ng, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“SPECTRUM”
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 — 4:00 PM EST
Yi Wang, Stanford University
"Isoperimetric inequality and Q-curvature"
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 — 4:00 PM EST
Simon Marshall, Northwestern University
"L^p norms of eigenfunctions on locally symmetric spaces"
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Ty Ghaswala, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“A Finite Group Walks Into a Bar...”
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 — 10:30 AM EST
Ian Payne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“The Journey to the Bounded Width conjecture”
Monday, November 25, 2013 — 4:00 PM EST
Chelsea Walton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Noncommutative Invariant Theory”
Friday, November 22, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Jon Bannon, Siena College
“Generic Weak Mixing and the Negation of Property (T)”
Friday, November 22, 2013 — 2:30 PM EST
Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Varieties with a difference term. II”
Thursday, November 21, 2013 — 1:30 PM EST
Julian Rosen, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Multiple zeta values and multiple harmonic sums”
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 — 2:30 PM EST
Eleonore Faber, University of Toronto
“Free and splayed divisors: singularities and transversality”
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Ruxandra Moraru, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 — 10:30 AM EST
Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Congruence meet semi-distributive varieties”
Monday, November 18, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Bohan Fang, Columbia University
"All genus mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds"
Friday, November 15, 2013 — 3:30 PM EST
Raphael Clouatre, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Friday, November 15, 2013 — 2:30 PM EST