Events

Talk #1 (1:00-2:30pm): Amanda Petcu

"The G_2 Laplacian flow"

In this talk, we will introduce the G_2 Laplacian flow and attempt to show short-time existence and uniqueness following the work of Bryant and Xu.

Talk #2 (2:30-4:00pm): Sir Michael Atiyah

"A Panoramic View of Mathematics "

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

Francisco Villacis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Functor of Points and Properties of Schemes"

We will review the functor of points perspective of schemes which was discussed the week of May 29, and we will talk about properties of schemes.

MC 5403

Alan Talmage, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Prime Solutions of Systems of Diagonal Equations"

Luke MacLean, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Reverse Math IV"

In this talk, we will be presenting material from a recent book by Damir Dzhafarov and Carl Mummert. In particular, we will begin on Chapter 4 studying reducibility of problems.

MC 5403

Leo Jimenez, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Restricted Zilber Trichotomy"

We will be reading Ben Castle’s paper.

MC 5479

Christine Eagles, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"BABA HAS PROOF"

Francisco Villacis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"D-Modules on Smooth Varieties"

In this talk I will talk about D-modules on smooth varieties and the Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence.

MC 5403