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, January 31, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Hannes Thiel, Fields Institute, Toronto
“Recasting the Cuntz category”
Friday, January 31, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Tommy Murphy, McMaster University
“Rigidity results for Hermitian Einstein manifolds”
Thursday, January 30, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
Youness Lamzouri, York University
“Large character sums"
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
J.C. Saunders, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Estimates for Improving Zhang’s Bounded Gaps of Primes”
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 — 4:30 PM EST
Cameron Williams, Pure Mathematics & Cameron Marcott, Combinatorics Optimization, University of Waterloo
"Cameron and Cameron Present the Cyclic Sieving Phenomena with Cameron and Cameron "
We show how basic representation theory can be used to count the fixed points of a set under the action of a cyclic group. This basic representation theory has deep combinatorial applications only recently described as the "cyclic sieving phenomena".
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Winnie Lam, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Weak Prague Instance”
Friday, January 24, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Magdalena Georgescu, University of Victoria
"Characterization of spectral flow in a type II factor"
Thursday, January 23, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Nasir Sohail, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“About a closure property of pomonoids”
I shall prove that a subpomonoid U of a pomonoid S is closed (in S) iff U is such as a monoid.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
Jing-Jing Huang, University of Toronto
"Rational points near manifold and Diophantine approximation"
It is well known that sharp estimates on the number of rational
points near manifold can lead to solutions of some long standing
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Julian Rosen, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Curves on abelian surfaces"
This talk will begin with an introduction to abelian varieties, which are projective varieties having the structure of an abelian group. Abelian varieties of dimension 1 are elliptic curves. Our focus will be on abelian varieties of dimension 2.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, University of Waterloo
"PMATH 499: Lie Algebras"
Continuing our discussion of solvable Lie algebras. The intention is to work through a proof of Engel's Theorem on nilpotent algebras. If you weren't there last week, no worries! You didn't miss much.
Monday, January 20, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Keith Kearnes, University of Colorado Boulder
“Finitely based algebras”
A law is a universally quantified equation, such as the associative law or the commutative law. I intend to talk about the problem of determining which algebras have a finite basis for their laws. Most of my talk will be about the laws of finite algebras.
Friday, January 17, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Alexandru Nica, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Double-ended queues and joint moments of left-right canonical operators on full Fock space”
Thursday, January 16, 2014 — 4:30 PM EST
Blake Madill, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“The Burnside Problem”
Thursday, January 16, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
Stanley Yao Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“History and Progress on Power-Free Values of Polynomials”
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Stanley Yao Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“An Overview of the Bounded Gaps Between Primes Problem”
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook University
“Kobayashi’s conjecture for K3 surfaces and for hyperkahler manifolds”
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Lie Algebras, following Humphreys”
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Alexander Wires, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Abstract
In showing that finite idempotent algebras generating a congruence meet-semidistributive variety have bounded width, our first step is to reduce the consideration of arbitrary constraint networks to those where the constraints are at most binary.
Monday, January 13, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Jason Star, Stony Brook University
“Solving polynomials, finding fixed points, splitting fibrations”
Friday, January 10, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Tony Lau, University of Alberta
"Fixed point and related geometric properties on the Fourier and Fourier Stieltjes algebras of locally compact groups"
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“The local consistency algorithm and problems of bounded width”