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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
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Eric Boulter, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Smooth and Compact Moduli Spaces of Sheaves on Kodaira Surfaces"
Florian Richter, Northwestern University
"Applications of Ergodic Theory to Combinatorics and Number Theory"
Jiuya Wang, Duke University
"The Distribution of Class Groups of Number Fields"
Class group is a central object of the study in number theory. We will give an overview on new developments in the distribution of class groups with a fixed Galois group. In particular, we will explain the use of symmetry which has been overlooked for decades, but turns out to be an essential tool to obtain many new results on the distribution of class groups.
A post-colloquium meet and greet will be held at 2:00 pm using the same Zoom meeting link.
Caleb Suan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Differential Operators on Manifolds with $G_2$-Structure"
Alex Weekes, University of British Columbia
"Nilpotent orbits and affine Grassmannians"
Daren Cheng, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Stable minimal surfaces in R4"
Mani Thamizhazhagan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"On the interplay of harmonic analysis, combinatorics, additive number theory and ergodic theory"
Elana Kalashnikov, Harvard University
"Quiver flag varieties and mirror symmetry"
Sherry Gong, Stanford University
"Invariants of knots and links"
We give an overview of some invariants to distinguish knots and links, and discuss some particular algebraic and geometric invariants. We discuss how these invariants relate to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture, one of the most important questions in 4-manifold topology.
A post-colloquium meet and greet will be held at 2:00 pm using the same Zoom meeting link.
Junliang Shen, MIT
"The P=W conjecture and hyper-Kähler geometry"
The P=W conjecture by de Cataldo, Hausel, and Migliorini suggests a surprising connection between the topology of Hitchin systems and Hodge theory of character varieties. In this talk, we will focus on interactions between topology of Lagrangian fibrations and Hodge theory in general hyper-Kaehler geometries. Such connections shed new light on both the P=W conjecture for Hitchin systems and the Lagrangian base conjecture for compact hyper-Kähler manifolds.
Jonathan Zhu, Princeton
"Mean curvature flow and explicit Łojasiewicz inequalities"
Brady Ali Medina, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"A different way to generalize the Weierstrass semigroup"
Michael Brannan, Texas A&M University
"Quantum symmetries of graphs"
Caleb Suan, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Intro to Knots and Knot Invariants"
Lei Alice Chen, California Institute of Technology
"Actions of Homeo and Diffeo groups on manifolds"
In this talk, I discuss the general question of how to obstruct and construct group actions on manifolds. I will focus on large groups like Homeo(M) and Diff(M) about how they can act on another manifold N. The main result is an orbit classification theorem, which fully classifies possible orbits. I will also talk about some low dimensional applications and open questions. This is a joint work with Kathryn Mann.
Yifeng Huang, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
"A generating function for counting mutually annihilating matrices over a finite field"
Gigliola Staffilani, MIT
"The many faces of dispersive equations"
Ákos Nagy, University of California Santa Barbara
"The asymptotic geometry of G_2-monopoles"
Seda Albayrak, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Sparse Automatic Sets"
I will present results in the theory of sparse automatic sets in three different contexts: the theory of algebraic power series, unlikely intersections, and the theory of representations in additive bases.
Online
Joe Driscoll, University of Leeds
"Deformations of Asymptotically Conical G2-Instantons"
Chris Sangwin, University of Edinburgh
"Assessing students' proofs online"
In this seminar I will describe how we, at the University of Edinburgh, have tried to help students learn proof through online assessment. This is ongoing work, driven by a practical need and constrained by current technology which cannot automatically assess students' free form proof. The seminar will discuss the nature of elementary proof more generally.
Andreas Thom, Technische Universität Dresden
"Finitary approximation properties of groups"
Motivated by the study of equations over groups, I will explain various finitary approximation properties of groups. Related to this, old questions of Ulam will reappear and we will motivate and discuss the notion of stability of solutions and almost solutions to algebraic equations.
Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/92568762391?pwd=djh2Q2R6OFlHbUtCUEZsbE42ZDhxZz09
Seda Albayrak, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"A refinement of Christol’s theorem"
Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
"Smooth loops"
Niky Kamran, McGill University
"Non-uniqueness for the anisotropic Calderon problem"
Departmental office: MC 5304
Phone: 519 888 4567 x33484
Fax: 519 725 0160
Email: puremath@uwaterloo.ca
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