Events by month

Ross Willard, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“The local consistency algorithm and problems of bounded width”

Tony Lau, University of Alberta

"Fixed point and related geometric properties on the Fourier and Fourier Stieltjes algebras of locally compact groups"

Jason Star, Stony Brook University

“Solving polynomials, finding fixed points, splitting fibrations”

Alexander Wires, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Abstract

In showing that finite idempotent algebras generating a congruence meet-semidistributive variety have bounded width, our first step is to reduce the consideration of arbitrary constraint networks to those where the constraints are at most binary.

Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Lie Algebras, following Humphreys”

Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook University

“Kobayashi’s conjecture for K3 surfaces and for hyperkahler manifolds”

Stanley Yao Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“An Overview of the Bounded Gaps Between Primes Problem”

Stanley Yao Xiao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“History and Progress on Power-Free Values of Polynomials”

Blake Madill, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“The Burnside Problem”

Alexandru Nica, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Double-ended queues and joint moments of left-right canonical operators on full Fock space”

Keith Kearnes, University of Colorado Boulder

“Finitely based algebras”

A law is a universally quantified equation, such as the associative law or the commutative law. I intend to talk about the problem of determining which algebras have a finite basis for their laws. Most of my talk will be about the laws of finite algebras.

Ehsaan Hossain, University of Waterloo

"PMATH 499: Lie Algebras"

Continuing our discussion of solvable Lie algebras. The intention is to work through a proof of Engel's Theorem on nilpotent algebras. If you weren't there last week, no worries! You didn't miss much.

Julian Rosen, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Curves on abelian surfaces"

Jing-Jing Huang, University of Toronto

"Rational points near manifold and Diophantine approximation"

Nasir Sohail, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“About a closure property of pomonoids”

I shall prove that a subpomonoid U of a pomonoid S is closed (in S) iff U is such as a monoid.

Magdalena Georgescu, University of Victoria

"Characterization of spectral flow in a type II factor"

Winnie Lam, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Weak Prague Instance”

Cameron Williams, Pure Mathematics & Cameron Marcott, Combinatorics Optimization, University of Waterloo

"Cameron and Cameron Present the Cyclic Sieving Phenomena with Cameron and Cameron "

We show how basic representation theory can be used to count the fixed points of a set under the action of a cyclic group. This basic representation theory has deep combinatorial applications only recently described as the "cyclic sieving phenomena".

J.C. Saunders, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Estimates for Improving Zhang’s Bounded Gaps of Primes”

Youness Lamzouri, York University

“Large character sums"

Tommy Murphy, McMaster University

“Rigidity results for Hermitian Einstein manifolds” 

Hannes Thiel, Fields Institute, Toronto

“Recasting the Cuntz category”