Ertan Elma, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"The Square Sieve"
We will see a method to estimate the number of squares in a given set of integers.
MC 5403
Nickolas Rollick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Schemes at last"
Alexander Dahl, York University
"Distribution of class numbers in continued fraction families of real quadratic fields"
Anthony McCormick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Reductive Linear Algebraic Groups"
We will begin our discussion of reductive and semisimple linear algebraic groups and explain some of the intuition behind why these properties are useful. Namely, I hope to make the classification theorem of semisimple linear algebraic groups using root systems, which we will see later this term, seem plausible.
MC 5413
Changliang Wang, McMaster University
"Stability of Riemannian manifolds with Killing spinors"
Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Columbia University
"Equivariant geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds"
Susama Agarwala, United States Naval Academy
“Positive Grassmannians and the Geometry of Wilson Loop diagrams”
Yoav Len, University of Waterloo
In this talk I will give an introduction to tropical geometry, and explain some of the terms that are relevant for studying Hodge theory for matroids.
MC 5403
Anthony McCormick, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Graded Lie Brackets in Differential Geometry”
We will discuss the basic theory and applications of various graded Lie brackets which appear naturally in differential geometry; namely the Frolicher-Nijenhuis, Schouten-Nijenhuis and Nijenhuis-Richardson brackets.
M3-3103
Zack Cramer, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo
"The Gershgorin Circle Theorem"