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
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST
Renzhi Song, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Series parallel posets and NU polymorphisms”
In this talk I will try to explain what series parallel posets are and how to find 5-ary NU polymorphism on them.
QNC 1507
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST
Michael Deveau, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Hereditarily Finite Superstructures - Part 2”
Monday, November 28, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Benjamin Hayes, Vanderbilt University
“Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy”
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Michael Wibmer, University of Pennsylvania
“Groups defined by algebraic difference equations”
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 2:30 PM EST
Francesco Sala, Kavli Institute for the Physics and the Mathematics of the Universe
“Moduli spaces and stacks of sheaves on resolutions of toric singularities”
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 11:30 AM EST
Hongdi Huang, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Hopf Modules and Integrals"
Let $H$ be a hopf algebra. We will prove the fundamental theorem of $H$ hopf modules. After that we investigate the connection between integrals and the rational part of $H^*$.
Thursday, November 24, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University
“Mysterious New Interactions between Analysis and Number Theory”
Thursday, November 24, 2016 — 2:30 PM EST
Bradd Hart, University of McMaster
"Logical unification"
I will talk on preliminary work on the role of [0,1]-valued
logic in unifying the growing number of first order logics. In
particular, elementary classes in [0,1]-valued logic are CATs in the
sense of Ben Yaacov and the class of von Neumann algebras with faithful
actions on Hilbert spaces form an elementary class.
Thursday, November 24, 2016 — 1:30 PM EST
Sneha Chaubey, University of Illinois
“Proportion of zeros of combinations of derivatives of Riemann-Xi function on the critical line”
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Satish Pandey, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The Dinitz Problem and Five-Colouring Plane Graphs"
G. H. Hardy firmly believed that there is no permanent place for ugly Mathematics. Following his dictum, Paul Erdos liked to talk about "The Book" in which God maintains the perfect proofs for mathematical theorems. This talk is an attempt to explore Erdos' idea of perfect proofs, and the territory we choose to explore is graph theory.
Monday, November 21, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Vorrapan Chandee, Burapha University
“Moments of L-functions”
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST
Ignacio Garcia, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Assouad dimensions of complementary sets”
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 2:30 PM EST
Tom Baird, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“The moduli space of Higgs bundles over a real curve and the real Abel-Jacobi ”
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 11:30 AM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Polycyclic groups and primitive group rings”
Thursday, November 17, 2016 — 3:00 PM EST
Gregory Chambers, University of Chicago
“Problems in Quantitative Geometry”
Thursday, November 17, 2016 — 2:00 PM EST
**Please note change of time**
Michael Wan, University of California, Berkeley
“Towards a model theory of almost complex manifolds”
Thursday, November 17, 2016 — 1:30 PM EST
Edward Lee and Ilia Chtcherbakov, University of Waterloo
“Topos Theory VI”
We finish off chapter 6 of Goldblatt: we discuss logical semantics in the context of an arbitrary topos. We then begin chapter 5: we see some first categorical properties of topoi.
MC 5403
Thursday, November 17, 2016 — 12:30 PM EST
Nickolas Rollick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“The grand scheme of things”
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 4:30 PM EST
Kanstantsin Pashkovich, Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
"Four Dimensional Polytopes of Minimum Positive Semidefinite Rank"
For a given polytope the smallest size of a semidefinite extended
formulation can be bounded from below by the dimension of the polytope
plus one. This talk is about polytopes for which this bound is tight,
i.e. polytopes with positive semidefinite (psd) rank equal to their
dimension plus one.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Aaron Tikuisis, University of Aberdeen
“C*-algebras: quasidiagonality and amenability”
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 1:00 PM EST
Christopher Hawthorne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Continuous model theory IV”
We begin section 5 of Model theory for metric structures; we present ultraproducts and, time permitting, compactness.
MC 5403
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST
Jonathan Stephenson, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“The Adjacency Relation”
We will show that the adjacency relation is structurally complete in linear orders, by expressing rice relations in terms of universal sentences over it.
MC 5417
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Charles W. Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
“Twisting the neutron wavefunction”
Friday, November 11, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST
Lorenzo Foscolo, Stony Brook University
“New Einstein metrics on the 6-sphere and the product of two 3-spheres, nearly K ̈ahler 6-manifolds and G2 cones”
Friday, November 11, 2016 — 3:10 PM EST
Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Polycyclic groups”