Events by date

Nicolas Banks, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Intersection theory, Chow groups, and a generalized Bezout's Theorem"

Bezout's Theorem is a classical result which states that two plane curves intersect in a number of points equal to the product of their degrees. This theorem has an interesting history: it was essentially known to Newton in the 17th century, while the first proof was attempted a century later by Bezout. The first rigorous, algebro-geometric proof was finally given by Serre in 1958.

Hanming Liu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction"

We will be reading Audin and Damian's book "Morse Theory and Floer Homology". In this introductory talk, I will briefly talk about why symplectic geometers and geometric topologists would want to study Morse theory, and then present chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2.

M3 4206
 

Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Restricted Zilber Trichotomy"

We will be reading Ben Castle's paper.

MC 4060