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
Monday, January 19, 2015 — 2:30 PM EST
Stanley Yao Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Binary quartic forms and average ranks of elliptic curves”
Friday, January 16, 2015 — 4:00 PM EST
Raymond Cheng, University of Waterloo
"Local theory of algebraic number fields"
Friday, January 16, 2015 — 3:30 PM EST
Vern Paulsen, University of Houston
“The Conjectures of Connes, Kirchberg and Tsirelson”
Friday, January 16, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Introduction"
Thursday, January 15, 2015 — 4:00 PM EST
Michael Baker, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Global theory of algebraic number fields"
In this talk, I will embark on an informal review of the global theory of algebraic number fields: integrality, discriminants and integral bases, Dedekind domains, fractional ideals and the ideal class group, Minkowski theory, Dirichlet's unit theorem, splitting of primes, as time permits. Motivation for class field theory will be discussed.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 — 2:30 PM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem"
Monday, January 12, 2015 — 2:30 PM EST
Stanley Yao Xiao, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Introduction to Bhargavaology"
In this introductory talk I aim to give a sampling of the vast web of important theorems related to Manjul Bhargava, one of the four Fields Medalists of 2014, and describe their importance in the context of modern number theory. There are no technical details in the talk, making it very accessible. Friday, January 9, 2015 — 3:23 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.
Friday, January 9, 2015 — 2:30 PM EST
Jie Zhou, Perimeter Institute
“WDVV equations and Ramanujan identities”
In this talk I will explain why the ancestor GW correlation functions for an elliptic orbifold are quasi-modular forms.
Friday, January 9, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Ben Smith, McGill University
“Singular G-Monopoles on circle bundles over a Riemann surface”
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 — 2:30 PM EST