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Patrick Naylor, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"The category of cobordisms (Part III)"

We specialize to the 2-cobordism category, and work towards developing a set of generators and relations.  

MC 5417

Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Bryant-Salamon G2 manifolds and coassociative fibrations"

Angelos Koutsianas, University of British Columbia

"Solving generalized Fermat equations with Frey hyperelliptic curves"

In this talk, I will talk about Darmon's program and the resolution of the generalized Fermat equation of signature (p,p,5) using Frey hyperelliptic curves. This is joint work with Imin Chen (Simon Fraser University).

MC 5417