Events - August 2021

Andean Medjedovic, University of Waterloo

"Exact Formulas for Averages of Secular Coefficients"

We present formulas for averages, over the classical compact groups, of the coefficients of powers of characteristic polynomials. The study of these coefficients was motivated by connections with analogous problems in number theory dealing with averages of divisor sums over short intervals.

Zoom meeting:

Christopher Hawthorne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"F-automatic sets"

Brett Nasserden, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Applications of the minimal model program in arithmetic dynamics"

Arithmetic dynamics is a rapidly growing field of mathematics that lies in the intersection of algebraic geometry, number theory and complex dynamics. Many interesting number theoretic problems admit a dynamical generalization. Understanding this dynamical generalization can shed new light on the original problem while also leading to new and interesting challenges in arithmetic and geometry. 

Nicholas Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Galois Actions on Surfaces of Small Picard Rank"

Patrick Naylor, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Trisections of non-orientable 4—manifolds"

Nicholas Kayban, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Riemannian Submersions and the O'Neill Tensors"