Jun-Yong Park, University of Melbourne
"Height moduli on algebraic stacks and counting families of varieties"
Spiro Karigiannis, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Relation between self-duality and conformal structures in dimension 4"
Steve Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
"Resolutions of finite quotient singularities and quiver varieties"
Tomasz Tkocz, Carnegie Melon University
"Slicing l_p balls"
I shall present recent progress on sharp bounds on volume of hyperplane sections of unit balls in l_p spaces, as well as their stability.
This seminar will be held both online and in person:
Matthew Satriano, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Organizational meeting
We will give a brief overview of chiral de Rham cohomology and discuss the plan for the term.
MC 5403
Talk #1 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
Anton Iliashenko, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Betti numbers of nearly G_2 and nearly Kähler manifolds with Weyl curvature bounds"
Sergii Myroshnychenko, Lakehead University
"How far apart can centroids be?"
Matthew Satriano, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Formal loop spaces"
We will discuss Section 2 of the Kapranov-Vasserot paper.
MC 5403
Thomas Bray, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Boundaries and C*-simplicity of (discrete) groups"
I will discuss the contents of the paper “Boundaries of reduced C*-algebras of discrete groups" by Kalantar and Kennedy. Since this is the first meeting, we may also discuss plans for the seminar at the beginning.
MC 5479
Talk #1 (1:00pm-2:30pm)
Michael Albanese, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Hyperbolic Manifolds and Complex Structures"