Events

Janis Lazovskis, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo

“Grassmannians”

We will finish (and clear up) our discussion about the Stiefel-Whitney class, and proceed through chapter 5 of Milnor-Stasheff.

Shuntaro Yamagishi, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Circle method in a nutshell”

Circle method is a technique used in number theory to count the number of solutions to a certain type of Diophantine equations. I will talk about it for about 50 minutes.

Nico Spronk, Department of Pure Math University of Waterloo

“On p-variations of Fourier algebras” Abstract

Let G be a compact group.

Ian Payne, Pure Mathematics Department, University of Waterloo

“The Absorption Theorem and its Proof (Part 1)”

In this first of two lectures, I will start with the definition of an absorbing subalgebra, as well as some useful definitions and observations surrounding them.

David Wagner, University of Waterloo

“The Kadison-Singer Problem IV”

We continue our overview of the large-scale structure of the proof of Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava.

Eirik Svanes, University of Oxford

"SU(3)-Structures and the Heterotic String”

We will first consider the Strominger system derived from heterotic string compactifications on a six-dimensional space.

Alexander Berenbeim, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo

“Category Theory: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Diagram”

We will introduce the language of categories with the aim of studying group cohomology.

Nasir Sohail,Institute of Mathematics, University of Tartu, Estonia

“The strong representation extension property and amalgamation for pomonoids”

In previous two talks I discussed some necessary conditions for the embedding of semigroup amalgams.