Contact Info
Pure MathematicsUniversity of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x33484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
Mohammad Mahmoud, Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo
“Goncharov’s Theorem”
We continue through the proof of Goncharov’s Theorem from Mcpherson’s research paper.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Spiro Karigiannis, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Intro to Calibrations, Instantons, and Branes"
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Ross Willard, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Adding Gaussian elimination to local consistency checking - 5"
In this fifth of several lectures, I continue the analysis of
singular pairs of variables, studying their effect on the congruence
lattice of their associated constraint relation.
Friday, November 7, 2014 — 3:30 PM EST
James A. Mingo, Queen’s University
“Freeness and the Transpose”
Friday, November 7, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Xiangwen Zhang, Columbia University
“ALEXANDROV’S UNIQUENESS THEOREM FOR CONVEX SURFACES”
Friday, November 7, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Suzanne Findleton, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Gluing constructions and separated schemes"
In this talk, we explain how one can obtain new schemes by gluing together a collection of schemes. This is known as the "gluing construction", which can produce for example projective n-space over a given ring. We also introduce the notion of a separated scheme and explain its relation to Hausdorffness.
Thursday, November 6, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
David McKinnon, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Integral points on punctured varieties”
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 — 1:30 PM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Goodbye K0 ... Hello K1!”
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Jonathan Herman, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Totally Geodesic Immersions"
Given an isometric immersion, we will study further how the second
fundamental form allows the geometry in the ambient space to be
decomposed into geometry on the tangent and normal bundles. In
particular, we'll discuss the Gauss-Codazzi equations. In the second
part of the talk, we will look at totally geodesic immersions and some
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 — 10:30 AM EST
Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Adding Gaussian elimination to local consistency checking - 4”
Monday, November 3, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Benjamin Steinberg, City College of New York
"Groupoid algebras and C*-algebras"
Groupoid C*-algebras form a unifying framework for a number of classes of C*-algebras including commutative ones, group C^*-algebras, group action cross products and Cuntz-Krieger, or graph, C*-algebras. Often purely algebraic properties of these algebras can be understood in terms of the groupoids, e.g., simplicity, Morita equivalence, the primitive ideal structure.