Events - July 2022

Austin Sun, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"On the Dynamical Wilf-Zeilberger Problem"

Cliff Taubes, Harvard University

"An AMS recorded lecture by Cliff Taubes from 1995"

We will watch an AMS recorded lecture from 1995 by Cliff Taubes about gauge theory, Donaldson invariants, and Seiberg-Witten invariants. This talk is just under two hours long. We will start at 9:30am and possibly take a short break halfway through. The video can be found here: http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/Videos/Einstein/455-19950101-Taubes.html

MC 5403

Nic Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Inverse Galois Theory of Elliptic Curves"

The Inverse Galois Problem asks which finite groups appear as Galois groups of extensions of the rational numbers. The problem was first systematically investigated in 1892 by Hilbert, but the essential ideas were in the mathematical community since Galois enunciated his groundbreaking theory in the 1830s.

Szymon Adamus, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Punctual Computability Theory - Part 2"

Dan Wolczuk, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Assessing Assessment"

Simon Adamus, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Punctual Computability Theory"

Talk #1 (9:30am - 10:15 am): Prerecorded talk by Sven Hirsch, Duke University

"Spacetime harmonic functions and applications to relativity" (2021)

Talk #2 (10:30am - 11:30 am): Prerecorded talk by Vladimir Arnold, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences

"Statistics of the Morse theory of smooth functions" (2008)

Abstract: [translated from Russian]