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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
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Spencer Kelly, University of Waterloo
Constructing a Slice Theorem in Infinite Dimensions
The slice theorem is a powerful tool for understanding proper group actions on manifolds; however it does nothold on infinite dimensional manifolds, nor does there exist a general infinite dimensional extension of it.However, on specific infinite dimensional manifolds, working on a case-by-case basis, we have been able toconstruct analogues of the slice theorem. In this talk, we will investigate one of these cases, namely the space ofconnections on a bundle over a compact Riemannian manifold, acted on by the gauge group.
MC 5403
Computability Learning Seminar
William Dan, University of Waterloo
Solovay Reducibility
Having discussed the relationship between Solovay reducibility and the newly introduced reducibilities, K-reducibility and C-reducibility, we turn back to study its relationship with previously discussed reducibilities, Turing reducibility and wtt-reducibility. Then, if time permits, we will completely finish sections 9.1 and 9.2 by discussing a final characterization of Solovay reducibility and going beyond random left-c.e. reals to look at random left-d.c.e. reals.
MC 5403
Pure Math Colloquium
Damaris Schindler, University of Göttingen
Density of rational points near manifolds
Given a bounded submanifold M in R^n, how many rational points with common bounded denominator are there in a small thickening of M? How does this counting function behave if we let the size of the denominator go to infinity? The study of the density of rational points near manifolds has seen significant progress in the last couple of years. In this talk I will explain why we might be interested in this question, focusing on applications in Diophantine approximation and the (quantitative) arithmetic of projective varieties.
MC 5403