Western Math Calendar

Mathematics Calendar

January 12, 2016

Tuesday, January 12

Noncommutative Geometry

Time: 11:30
Speaker: (Western)
Title: "Maurer-Cartan forms and odd Chern character"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: In this talk, we shall exhibit explicit formulas for the odd Chern character map.

Homotopy Theory

Time: 13:30
Speaker: Chris Kapulkin (Western)
Title: "Properties of the Identity Type (part 1)"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: Following Chapter 2 of the HoTT Book, I will present the main properties of the Identity Type.

Analysis Seminar

Time: 15:30
Speaker: Purvi Gupta (Western)
Title: "Some new analogies between convex and complex analysis - Part II"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: We will discuss the convex floating body method of extending Blaschke's affine surface area measure to all convex bodies. We will then introduce the Fefferman hypersurface area measure on the boundary of a strongly pseudoconvex domain. This measure transforms well under biholomorphisms, and we will discuss why this can be useful. Taking tube domains as the motivating case, we will propose a method for extending this measure to general pseudoconvex domains.