Events by month

Ruxandra Moraru, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Higgs Bundles"

Last week, Robert introduced the notion of Higgs bundle over Riemann surfaces. In this talk, I will provide some background on Higgs bundles and explain how they are related to the Yang-Mills equations and the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of stable bundles. I will also discuss how Higgs bundles can be generalized to higher-dimensional complex manifolds.

Zoom meeting:

Kseniya Garaschuk, University of the Fraser Valley

"Injecting life into real-life applications"

Anton Ilianshenko, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Riemannian Submersions, Part II"

Robert Martin, University of Manitoba

"Non-commutative rational multipliers of the Fock space"

Vasileos (Hector) Papoulias, Oxford University

"Spin(7) Instantons and HYM Connections on Asymptotically Conical Calabi-Yau Fourfolds"

Alexi Block Gorman, Fields Institute

"Fractal Dimensions and Definability from Büchi Automata"

Brady Ali Medina, University of Waterloo

"Rank-2 odd degree moduli spaces of co-Higgs bundles"

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, European Research Council

"What is a spinor?"

Brent Nelson, Michigan State University

"Free Stein Dimension"

Daniel Fadel, Peking University

"Asymptotics of finite energy monopoles on AC 3-manifolds"

Brady Ali Medina, University of Waterloo

"Rank-2 odd degree moduli spaces of co-Higgs bundles"

This talk will be a continuation of my previous talk, we are going to show how the smooth moduli space of rank-2, odd-degree co-Higgs bundles can be interpreted as a kind of universal elliptic curve.

Zoom meeting:

Daren Cheng, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Incompressible minimal surfaces and topological consequences of positive scalar curvature (Part 2)"

Boyu Li, University of Waterloo and University of Windsor

"Zappa-Szep product, self-similar action, and equivalent groupoids"

Nicolas Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"ABC Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem for Polynomials"

John Huerta, University of Lisbon

"Bundle gerbes on Lie supergroups"

Catherine St-Pierre, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

"An Introduction + Connexion to Algebraic Geometry"

Samuel Harris, Texas A&M University

"Applications of graph coloring games to quantum automorphism groups"

Arunima Bhattacharya, University of Washington

"Nonlinear PDEs in Lagrangian geometry"

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Qaasim Shafi, Imperial College London

"Gromov-Witten invariants of Blow-ups"

Jonathan Zhu, Princeton University

"Min-max theory for capillary surfaces"

Nick Ramsey, University of California, Los Angeles

"Kim-Independence"

Iva Halacheva, Northeastern University

"Crystals and cacti in representation theory"