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Waterloo Geometry Summer School 2016

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Title: On the volume spectrum in hyperbolic geometry

Speaker: Luca Di Cerbo, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Se-Jin Sam Kim, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Crossed products and Morita equivalence"

The talk will consist of three parts. Firstly, we will establish some basic notions of crossed product $C^*$-algebras, with a focus on the irrational rotation algebras.

Dylan Butson, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Factorization Algebras from Quantum Field Theory"

I will survey the construction of factorization algebras, a type of algebraic-topological data on a space, using methods from quantum field theory, following the work of Kevin Costello and Owen Gwilliam.

Adam Dor On, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Absolute continuity and wandering vectors in Free semigroup algebras"

Thomas Parker, Michigan State University

“Paths of holomorphic curves and the GV conjecture”

Wentang Kuo, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"On a problem of Sidon"

Christopher Hawthorne, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

We begin chapter 4 of Goldblatt. (Category theory background from chapter 3 will be assumed.) We introduce subobjects and subobject classifiers; time permitting, we will get to the definition of a topos.

Blake Madill, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"The Fundamental Theorem of Hopf Modules"

We continue our investigation of Hopf modules.

Satish Pandey, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"The Dinitz Problem and Five-Colouring Plane Graphs"

G. H. Hardy firmly believed that there is no permanent place for ugly Mathematics. Following his dictum, Paul Erdos liked to talk about "The Book" in which God maintains the perfect proofs for mathematical theorems. This talk is an attempt to explore Erdos'  idea of perfect proofs, and the territory we choose to explore is graph theory.

Bradd Hart, University of McMaster

"Logical unification"

I will talk on preliminary work on the role of [0,1]-valued
logic in unifying the growing number of first order logics. In
particular, elementary classes in [0,1]-valued logic are CATs in the
sense of Ben Yaacov and the class of von Neumann algebras with faithful
actions on Hilbert spaces form an elementary class.