Events by month

Karen Yeats, Simon Fraser University

"Tree Feynman rules”

Ben Smith, McGill University

“Singular G-Monopoles on circle bundles over a Riemann surface”

Jie Zhou, Perimeter Institute

“WDVV equations and Ramanujan identities”

In this talk I will explain why the ancestor GW correlation functions for an elliptic orbifold are quasi-modular forms.

Ross Willard, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Larose's theorem"

Putting together some of the machinery developed this term, I will prove Larose’s Theorem: if X is a finite, connected reflexive digraph and X admits a Taylor operation, then for every k ≥ 1, the k-th homotopy group of X is trivial.

Stanley Yao Xiao, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction to Bhargavaology"

In this introductory talk I aim to give a sampling of the vast web of important theorems related to Manjul Bhargava, one of the four Fields Medalists of 2014, and describe their importance in the context of modern number theory. There are no technical details in the talk, making it very accessible.

Ehsaan Hossain, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem"

Michael Baker, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Global theory of algebraic number fields"

In this talk, I will embark on an informal review of the global theory of algebraic number fields: integrality, discriminants and integral bases, Dedekind domains, fractional ideals and the ideal class group, Minkowski theory, Dirichlet's unit theorem, splitting of primes, as time permits. Motivation for class field theory will be discussed.

Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction"

Vern Paulsen, University of Houston

“The Conjectures of Connes, Kirchberg and Tsirelson”

Raymond Cheng, University of Waterloo

"Local theory of algebraic number fields"

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

“Binary quartic forms and average ranks of elliptic curves”

Eric Sawyer, McMaster University

“Corona problems - still open on the ball a half century after Carleson’s corona theorem in the unit disk.”

Blake Madill, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“On the Jacobson radical of differential polynomial rings. ”

Jason Bell, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Boyu Li, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Regular representations of lattice ordered semigroups”

Anton Mosunov, Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo

"The tale of a little point on a sphere that factored a large integer"

Hun Hee Lee, Seoul National University

“Weak amenability problem of Fourier algebras”