Events - 2019

Wilson Poulter, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"NIP IX"

We continue section 3.2 of Simon's Guide to NIP theories.

MC 5413

Yi Wang, State University of New York at Buffalo

"Arveson-Douglas Conjecture --- a Harmonic Analysis Approach"

Fei Hu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Building on previous preliminary results on the valuative tree at infinity (e.g., classification of valuations), I will describe the proof of Medvedev-Scanlon-Zhang conjecture for polynomial endomorphisms of the affine plane given by Junyi Xie in 2017.

Will Rushworth, McMaster University

"Ascent concordance"

Steven Lazzaro, McMaster University

"NIP VIII"

We continue section 3.1.2 of Simon's Guide to NIP Theories.

MC 5413

Eric Boulter, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Plane Old Tilings"

Luke MacLean, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Ramsey's Theorem"

We will discuss two different proofs of Ramsey's Theorem and compare their reverse mathematical strength.

MC 5413

James Freitag, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Model theory, automorphic functions, and differential equations"

John Schanck, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo

"Kummer's Theorem on binomial coefficients, etc."

Christopher Hawthorne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"NIP VII"

We begin chapter 3 of Simon's Guide to NIP theories.

MC 5413

Andrew Zimmer, Louisiana State University

"Intrinsic and extrinsic geometries in several complex variables"

Henry Yuen, University of Toronto

"Connes’ Embedding Problem through the lens of complexity theory"