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News
Pure Math Department celebrates outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistants at awards ceremony
On November 3, the department of Pure Mathematics held its Graduate Teaching and Teaching Assistant Awards Ceremony, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of its remarkable graduate students
53rd annual COSY conference a success
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.
Pure Math Department celebrates undergraduate achievement at awards tea
On March 24, the department of Pure Mathematics held its annual Undergraduate Awards Tea, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of its remarkable undergraduate students.
Events
Strong convergence seminar
Jashan Bal University of Waterloo,
Strong convergence of random permutations
We will start proving that i.i.d random permutations strongly converge to Haar unitaries.
MC 5479
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Spencer Kelly, University of Waterloo
Proper Group Actions and the Slice Theorem in Finite Dimensions
In this talk we will begin by reviewing important properties of group actions on manifolds, and characteristics of proper actions. We then define isotropy and orbit types, discuss the slice theorem (on finite dimensional manifolds), and go over non-trivial examples of slice bundles. This will set us up to conclude with the principal orbit theorem and the stratification of the orbit space.
MC 5403
Analysis Seminar
Zhihao Zhang, University of Waterloo
Spectra of Beurling Algebras of Discrete Abelian Groups
We will discuss a variant of the group algebra, called the Beurling algebra. These algebras differ from their classical counterpart through the addition of a weight function modifying the norm. The Gelfand spectrum of the group algebra of absolutely integrable functions on an abelian group, G, is well known to be the Pontryagin dual of G. In the case of a Beurling algebra, the Gelfand spectrum can be much larger for suitable weights. We will focus on the Beurling algebra of a discrete abelian group, G, and give a description of its Gelfand spectrum in terms of a seminorm constructed from a symmetric weight.
MC 5417 or Join on Zoom