Events

Jaspar Wiart, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo

“Nuclear and exact C*-algebras”

This will be an overview of the two definitions of nuclear and exact C*-algberas via com- pletely positive maps and exact sequences, and an outline of how the equivalence is established.

MC 5403

Mohammad Mahmoud, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Algorithmic Randomness: Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity”

The topic for the Computability Learning Seminar this term will be Algorithmic Random- ness. We will be following Nies’s book, Computability and Randomness.

Michael F. Singer North Carolina State University

“Differential Groups and the Gamma Function”

Anton Mosunov, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Basic definitions and examples in the theory of modular forms”

Anthony McCormick, Pure Math Department, University of Waterloo 

“Recent Methods for Computing the Hausdorff Dimension of a Self-Similar Set”

Blake Madill, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“On rings graded by semigroups with a unique product property”

Chris Schafhauser, Department of Pure Math, University of Waterloo

“Quasidiagonal Traces and Crossed Products”

M. Ram Murty, Queen’s University

“NEW DIRECTIONS IN SIEVE THEORY”

Ram Murty, Queen’s University

“The theory of Ramanujan expansions”