Events - December 2016

Friday, December 16, 2016 — 2:30 PM EST

Geometry & Topology Seminar

Karen Yeats, Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

“An arithmetic graph invariant with applications in quantum field theory.”

Friday, December 9, 2016 — 4:00 PM EST

Ben Webster, University of Virginia

“Representation theory of symplectic singularities”

Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST

Martijn Caspers, Utrecht University

“Absence of Cartan subalgebras for right angled Hecke von Neumann algebras.”

Friday, December 2, 2016 — 3:30 PM EST

Laurent Marcoux, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“The complete boundedness property for amenable operator algebras

Friday, December 2, 2016 — 2:30 PM EST

Mark Stern, Duke University

“Instantons on ALF spaces”

I will discuss progress on establishing Cherkis’s Nahm transform for multicenter Taub NUT spaces.

This is joint work with Sergey Cherkis and Andres Larrain.

MC 5413

Friday, December 2, 2016 — 11:30 AM EST

Hongdi Huang, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Semisimple and Co-semisimple Hof algebras”

Friday, December 2, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST

Anthony McCormick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Deformations of Complex Structures”

Today we’ll investigate some basic deformation theory for complex structures, culminating in a proof of the Tian Todorov lemma.

MC 5403

Thursday, December 1, 2016 — 12:30 PM EST

Jiale Xie, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

“Building the base of the Zariski topology”