# Seminars in 2017

Friday, December 8
Andrii Arman (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The crossing number of a graph
Tuesday, December 5
R. W. Quackenbush (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): When is a $$\vee$$-semilattice a lattice? (continued)
Friday, December 1
Shahin Kamali (Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba): k-server problems: a review of the old results and recent developments
Thursday, November 30
Anthony Bonato (Ryerson University): Graph Searching Games and Probabilistic Methods
Tuesday, November 28
Raqeeb Rasheed (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Parallel Computation of the Resultant
Friday, November 24
Anthony Bonato (Department of Mathematics, Ryerson): Burning spiders and path forests
Friday, November 24
Marc Ethier (Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Université de Saint-Boniface): An introduction to persistent homology with applications to shape analysis
Tuesday, November 21
Edward Timko (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A Classification of $$n$$-tuples of Commuting Isometries
Tuesday, November 21
R. W. Quackenbush (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): When is a $$\vee$$-semilattice a lattice?
Friday, November 17
Adam Clay (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Free subgroups of groups of homeomorphisms
Tuesday, November 14
Christopher Ramsey (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): C^*-correspondences and the Hao-Ng isomorphism problem
Tuesday, November 14
Kenneth Onuma (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Left and right generalized inverses
Friday, November 10
Amy Shaw (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Catching a fast robber
Tuesday, November 7
J. Chipalkatti (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Pascal's Hexagram and Desargues Configurations
Friday, November 3
Avery Miller (Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba): Treasure Hunting in Graphs Without a Map
Friday, November 3
Steve Reinhardt (D-Wave Systems): Using D-Wave Quantum Processors to Solve Real-World Problems
Friday, November 3
Adriana-Stefania Ciupeanu (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Introduction to Hyperbolic Metric Spaces
Tuesday, October 31
T. G. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): pp properties of infinite sequences in modules
Friday, October 27
Ranganathan Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Elliptic Curves in Combinatorics
Tuesday, October 24
T. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The elementary socle series: problems and questions
Monday, October 23
Robert Smith? (The University of Ottawa): Unexpected Infection Spikes in a Model of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccination
Friday, October 20
Derek Krepski (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The holonomy correspondence Part 2
Friday, October 13
Derek Krepski (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The Holonomy Correspondence
Tuesday, October 3
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Algorithms for multiplying integers and polynomials
Monday, October 2
Kristin Courtney (University of Virginia): A von Neumann-type inequality for $$*$$-polynomials
Friday, September 29
Karen Gunderson (University of Manitoba): Sets with no 3-term arithmetic progressions
Friday, September 29
Adam Clay (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The ping-pong lemma
Thursday, September 28
Robert Serfling (University of Texas): Depth Functions in Multivariate & Other Data Settings: Concepts, Perspectives, Tools, & Applications
Tuesday, September 26
Ievgen Bilokopytov (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Continuity and Holomorphicity of Symbols of Weighted Composition Operators
Tuesday, September 26
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Circle-realizable $$(n_4)$$-configurations
Friday, September 22
Sergei Tsaturian (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A survey of Euclidean Ramsey Theory
Friday, September 22
Eric Schippers (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Teichmuller Space of Compact Surfaces
Friday, September 15
David Gunderson (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Some of my favourite problems in combinatorial geometry.
Friday, September 1
Gerard Freixas i Montplet (Department of Mathematics, C.N.R.S. - Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu): Local to global formulas: from Gauss-Bonet to brane cosmology
Friday, August 18
Cecilia Holmgren (Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University): Split trees and Galton Watson trees: Two important classes of random trees
Thursday, August 3
Qing-wen Wang (Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University): CANCELLED
Wednesday, August 2
Jose Aguayo (Department of Mathematics, University of Concepcion): Representation Theorems for Operators on Free Banach Spaces of Countable Type
Friday, June 9
Richard Slevinsky (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Fast and Backward Stable Transforms Between Spherical Harmonic Expansions and Bivariate Fourier Series
Friday, May 26
Andrew Uzzell (Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska): Graph limits, entropy, and counting
Friday, May 12
John Dallon (Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University): Modeling Amoeboidal Cell Motion -- Force vs Speed
Thursday, May 4
Tommy Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Fibonacci and The Liber Abaci
Friday, April 21
Ortrud Oellermann (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): On Mean Subtree Orders of Trees
Tuesday, April 18
Yungang Liang (Department of Mathematics, South China Normal University): The explicit solutions to the matrix equation $$X^{2}AX=AXA$$
Friday, April 7
Robert Craigen (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The double core and duality
Friday, March 31
Colin Desmarais (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A history of partition regularity on the integers
Friday, March 31
Francois Charette (Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa): Lagrangian Floer homology, Fukaya's symplectic s-cobordism conjecture, and all that...
Tuesday, March 21
Kenneth Onuma (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The Generalized Drazin Inverse of a sum in a Banach algebra
Friday, March 17
Andrii Arman (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): An upper bound on the size of a $k$-uniform intersecting hypergraph with cover number $k$.
Wednesday, March 15
Nina Zorboska (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Unitary and normal weighted composition operators on spaces of holomorphic functions
Tuesday, March 14
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Single Palindromic Axioms for Groups
Friday, March 10
Douglas Farenick (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Boundaries Of Some Low-Dimensional Operator Systems
Thursday, March 9
Vern Paulsen (Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo): Quantum Graph Theory
Friday, March 3
Cameron Franc (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Geometry and Modular Forms
Wednesday, March 1
Eric Schippers (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Dirichlet Problem and Jump Decomposition on Quasicircles
Tuesday, February 28
Qiwei Feng (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Generalized Inverses of Matrices over Skew Polynomial Rings
Friday, February 17
Narad Rampersad (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Computer Proofs of Results in Combinatorics on Words
Tuesday, February 14
Daniel Johnson (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Reusable Shares in $$(t,n)$$ Secret Sharing Schemes
Friday, February 10
Karen Gunderson (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Independence density in graphs and hypergraphs
Friday, February 10
Marine Jacquier (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Modeling The Hormonal Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight
Wednesday, February 8
Christopher Ramsey (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Dilation theory and free probability
Tuesday, February 7
Yungang Liang (Department of Mathematics, South China Normal University): Groebner-Shirshov basis for $$G_n^2$$
Friday, February 3
Julien Arino (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Some applications of graph theory to math biology
Wednesday, February 1
Fereidoun Ghahramani (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Approximate amenability of tensor products of Banach algebras
Tuesday, January 31
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The Geometric Orchard Problem
Friday, January 27
Jianqing Fan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): CANCELLED
Friday, January 27
Sergei Tsaturian (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Some results in asymmetric Euclidean Ramsey theory
Friday, January 27
Ling Xue (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Network-Level Extinction Threshold and Reproduction Number For Vector-Borne Diseases
Tuesday, January 24
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Computing approximate GCDs.
Friday, January 20
Avery Miller (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Cover-Free Families of Sets with Applications
Wednesday, January 18
Pauline van den Driessche (University of Victoria): Models for the Spread of Cholera
Friday, January 13
Jonathan Ziprick (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick): Quantum gravitational collapse of a thin shell