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{\Large \bf
Activity Report for Pure Math Doctoral Students	\\
Report Period: May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024 \\
}
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{\large\textbf{NAME:}\hspace{5mm}\Name\vspace{2mm} \\
\textbf{NUMBER OF TERMS COMPLETED IN CURRENT PROGRAM:}\hspace{5mm}\Numberoftermsinprogram\vspace{2mm} \\
\textbf{SUPERVISOR:}\hspace{5mm}\Supervisor\vspace{2mm}

If you have completed the Qualifying Examination requirement, please name your two additional \\ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS.  (You may ask your supervisor about this.)\\

{First Member's name},\hfill {Second Member's name} \hfill \vspace{2cm}

1. Please list the mathematics courses you have taken since you started your PhD program, and indicate which ones you will use towards your course requirement.

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\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\textbf{Term}} &amp; \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Course Number}} &amp; \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Grade}} &amp; \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\textbf{Use towards Course Req?}}\\
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{Fall/Winter/Spring 20xx} &amp; {PMATH xxx} &amp; {xx} &amp; {yes} \\
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\textbf{Your most recent Cumulative average is}\hspace{5mm}{xx.xx} \\


2.  Describe your teaching assistantship duties during the report period, including any courses that you taught.\\

%\hspace{5mm}{TAed PMATH xxx.}\\

3. Describe your service activities during the report period (examples: committee duties, seminar organizer, GSA involvement, outreach, recruitment).\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Hosted Putnam practice sessions.}\\

4. Please list all the seminars that you attended on a regular basis during the report period. \textbf{(Recall that regular participation in a departmental seminar is expected as part of the PhD Lecturing Requirement.)}\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Attended the Category Theory and Generalized Diagram Chasing Seminar}\\

5. List any talks that you have given in the report period. Please give titles, dates and indicate in which course, seminar, etc. you made your presentation.\\

%\hspace{5mm}{``An Explicit Bijection Between $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{R}$", April 31, 2024, The viXra Seminar}\\

6. List all major awards (e.g. NSERC/OGS/QEII) you have held during your current program.\\

%\begin{itemize}
%\item  NSERC CGS-M F21, W22, S22
%\item OGS F21, W22, S22
%\item A Different Awesome Award F21, W22
%\end{itemize} 


7. List all publications and preprints from your time in the current program; please include links to papers.\\


\begin{itemize}
\item A. Student, B. Collaborator, How to Submit an Annual Activity report, \emph{Awesome Journal}, \url{https://uwaterloo.ca/pure-mathematics/graduate-studies/current-students/phd-annual-activity-report}, accepted.
\item A. Student, A newer paper, link-to-paper, submited.
\end{itemize}\\

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8. Please check the box for the Pure Math department colloquia or Pure Math Graduate student colloquia listed below, that you attended during the report period.\\

\textbf{Department Colloquia:}

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{September 11, 2023 Stuart White, Oxford University ``Simple amenable C*-algebras"}\\

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{\huge \Square} {October 2, 2023 M. Ram Murty, Queen's University ``Brain Network Hubs and Markov Processes"}\\

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{October 16, 2023 Natasha Dobrinen, University of Notre Dame ``Infinite-dimensional Ramsey theory on binary relational homogeneous structures"}\\

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 {October 30, 2023 Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto ``Cars, Interchanges, Traffic Counters, and some Pretty Darned Good Knot Invariants"}\\

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 {November 6, 2023 Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan ``Moduli Spaces and Quantum Matter: From Materials to Pure Mathematics and Back"}\\

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 {November 13, 2023 Ila Varma, University of Toronto ``Counting number fields and predicting asymptotics"}\\

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 {November 20, 2023 Mikael De La Salle, Universite de Lyon ``Variations around the Hilbert transform"}\\

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 {January 29, 2024 Yvon Verberne, Western University ``Pesudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms"}\\

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{February 26, 2024 Alina Stancu, Concordia University ``On the fundamental gap of convex domains in hyperbolic space"}\\

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{March 11, 2024 Noah Snyder, Indiana University ``Tensor categories, string diagrams, and the Quantum Exceptional Series"}\\

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 {March 25, 2024 Konstantin Tikhomirov, Carnegie Mellon University ``On the width of random polyhedra"}\\

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{April 1, 2024 Tianyi Zheng, US San Diego ``Random walks on self-similar groups and conformal dimension"}\\

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\textbf{Graduate Student Colloquia:}

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{May 19, 2023 Hanming Liu, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Living inside 3-manifolds"}\\

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{June 16, 2023 Christine Eagles, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``BABA HAS PROOF"}\\

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{July 28, 2023 Jacques van Wyk, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Can you win at Tetris?"}\\

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{September 29, 2023 Jeremy Champagne, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Yet another proof of the Riemann hypothesis"}\\

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{October 27, 2023 Liam Orovec, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Solving the Rubic's Cube (Group)"}\\

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{December 6, 2023 Kaleb Ruscitti, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Homomorphic Encryption (or: my summer as a Fed)"}\\

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{February 13, 2024 Yash Totani, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``Mellin Transforms"}\\

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{March 4, 2024 Kieran Mastel, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``An Aperiodic Monotile"}\\

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{April 5, 2024 AJ Fong, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo ``The mathematics of juggling (and perhaps a geometric application)"}\\

\textbf{Special Colloquia:}

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{November 24, 2023 Freid Tong, Harvard University ``On complete Calabi-Yau metrics and a free-boundary Monge-Ampere equation"}\\

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{November 28, 2023 Anne Dranowski, University of Southern California ``Some spaces associated to KLR/W algebras"}\\

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{November 29, 2023 Anwesh Ray, Chennai Mathematical Institute ``Diophantine stability for elliptic curves on average"}\\

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{November 30, 2023 Xujia Chen, Harvard University ``Why can Kontsevich's invariants detect exotic phenomena?"}\\

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{January 8, 2024 Lucas Mason-Brown, University of Oxford ``Unitary representations of semisimple Lie groups and conical symplectic singularities"}\\

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{January 10, 2024 Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University ``Amenability and von Neumann algebras"}\\

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{January 12, 2024 Niclas Technau, Max Plank Institute ``Counting Rational Points Near Manifolds"}\\

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{January 19, 2024 Rohini Ramadas, University of Warwick ``Complex dynamics and algebraic geometry"}\\

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{January 22, 2024 Uri Bader, The Weizmann Institute ``Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups, Higher Property T and Special Gap"}\\

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{January 23, 2024 Adi Glucksam, Northwestern University ``Multi-fractal spectrum of planar harmonic measure"}\\

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{January 24, 2024 Amy Huang, Auburn University ``Matrix Multiplication Complexity: Tensor Geometry and Commutative Algebra"}\\

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{January 25, 2024 Lena Ji, University of Michigan ``Rationality of algebraic varieties over non-algebraically-closed fields"}\\

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{February 12, 2024 Shirly Geffen, Universitat Munster ``Dynamical comparison and nonamenable groups"}\\

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{February 15, 2024 Myrto Mavraki, University of Toronto ``Dynamics, number theory, and unlikely intersections"}\\

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{February 16, 2024 Jennifer Park, Ohip State University ``Some speculations on Diophantine problems and elliptic curves"}\\


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\textbf{Timeline to Completion}\\

Recall that the PhD program has a 12 term limit. Please give your best estimate for when you expect to achieve each of the following, indicating both the name of the term and its position in your term count, without leaving any blank:\\

\vspace{.2cm}

1. Complete your Qualifying Exam milestone?\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Fall 2023 (term 1 of 12)}\\

2. Complete all of your course requirements?\\ 

%\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2024 (term 2 of 12)}\\

3. Give your supervisor a complete first draft of your PhD thesis?\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2027 (term 11 of 12)}\\

4. Complete your Lecturing requirement?\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Winter 2024 (term 2 of 12)}\\

5. Defend your PhD thesis?\\

%\hspace{5mm}{Spring 2027 (term 12 of 12)}\\

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\textbf{Statement on Research Progress}\\

If you completed your Qualifying Exam Milestone, and thus have arranged an Advisory Committee, please include a 1-2 page statement describing your research progress. Namely, describe the problems/topics studied during the report period, highlight your research achievements (citing any papers listed in question 7), and describe any continuing/new problems/topics to be considered in the upcoming academic year.\\

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