Events

Fok-Shuen Leung, University of British Columbia

"Teaching and learning roles in extremely large math courses"

Starting next year, the Math Department at UBC will teach extremely large consolidated courses of around 4000 undergraduate students each. In this talk, I'll describe how we've split the jack-of-all-trade "instructor" role into dedicated specialist roles, with the goal of improving the experience for everyone involved -- especially the students.

Elana Kalashnikov, Department of Pure Mathematics

"Unwinding the Gelfand—Cetlin toric degeneration on the mirror"

Anush Tserunyan, McGill University

"Backward and forward ergodic theorems along trees"

Christopher Lang, Pure Math Department, University of Waterloo

"The Spectral Curve of a SU(2) Monopole (Part 1): A Holomorphic Vector Bundle"

In this talk, we will be following Hitchin's 1982 paper, Monopoles and Geodesics, which defines spectral curves and discusses their relationship with SU(2) monopoles. This talk will focus on the creation of a holomorphic vector bundle on the space of oriented geodesics of R^3 as well as some of its properties.

MC 5403

Lara Alcock, Loughborough University 

"Tilting the Classroom: Engaging Students in Lectures and Online"

Nicole Kitt, Pure Math Department, University of Waterloo

"Buffon's Needle Problem"

Anna Duwenig, University of Wollongong

"Cartan subalgebras for non-principal twisted groupoid C*-algebras"

Woongbae Park, University of Pittsburgh

"Introduction of conformal heat flow of harmonic maps"

In this talk I will present a new type of flow, called conformal heat flow of harmonic maps. In the first part I introduce known behavior of heat flow of harmonic map, including finite time bubbling. In the second part I introduce the conformal heat flow which is designed to delay such finite time singularities. Finally, I briefly show short time existence and future conjectures.

This seminar will be held jointly online and in person:

Ivan Todorov, University of Delaware

"Morita equivalence for operator systems"

Anusha Krishnan, University of Münster

"Positive sectional curvature and Ricci flow"