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More than 100 researchers and students from across Canada and around the world attended the 53rd annual Canadian Operator Algebras Symposium (COSY), which took place from May 26-30 at the University of Waterloo.

Events

Thursday, April 23, 2026 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Differential Geometry Working Seminar

Paul Cusson, University of Waterloo

Monopoles with rotational symmetry

We will first look at SU(2)-monopoles invariant under the action of a circle subgroup of SO(3) about the z-axis.The polynomials cutting out their spectral curves in TP^1 will be derived, and these will be used to describe thespectral curves of S^1-invariant SU(N)-monopoles for arbitrary N.

MC 5403

Thursday, April 30, 2026 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Differential Geometry Working Seminar

Facundo Camano, University of Waterloo

Boundary Conditions for Non-Euclidean Monopoles

In this talk, I will discuss the heuristic behind defining asymptotics for monopoles. Specifically, the asymptoticsshould be abelian solutions embedded into the gauge group. I will first go over this heuristic for Euclideanmonopoles and then move on to non-Euclidean situations such as hyperbolic and singly periodic.

MC 5403