Events by month

Matthew Kennedy, Carleton University

“Operator algebraic geometry”

Ian Payne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“More Preliminaries for the Proof of the Bounded Width Conjecture”

**Postponed until January, 2014**

Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction to octonions, G2, F4, and triality (I)"

We will be discussing some notes by Shingo Murukami (available online) on exceptional Lie groups (particularly G2 and F4) and their relations to the octonions, including the notion of triality. This will be the first of at least two parts.

Diarmuid Crowley, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

“A new invariant of G2 structures”

Tom Lenagan, University of Edinburgh

“Totally nonnegative matrices”

Elena Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley

"Thin groups: arithmetic and beyond"

Cancelled - will be rescheduled for January 2014

Bianca Santoro, The City College of New York

“Complete Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on resolutions of singularities”

Abstract