| Tuesday, April 07 Pizza Seminar Time: 16:30 Room: MC 108 Speaker: Shiyamalen Thavandiran (Western) Title: The NSA Back Door to NIST I will present an article on cryptography by Thomas Hales which appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society journal. A familiarity with basic group theory and finite fields would be helpful. |
| Wednesday, April 08 Noncommutative Geometry Time: 15:00 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Alimjon Eshmatov (Western University (Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow)) Title: Noncommutative Poisson Structures III In this talk, we will discuss Noncommutative Poisson Structure which was introduced by Crawley-Boevey and how it fits nicely with Kontsevich-Rosenberg principle. We will also give some examples. If time allows, we will also discuss its relation to Van den Bergh's Double Poisson Algebras. |
| Friday, April 10 Noncommutative Geometry Time: 11:00 Room: MC 106 Speaker: Masoud Khalkhali (Western University) Title: Introduction to cyclic cohomology and its applications In these series of lectures I shall cover some of the main ideas and results in cyclic cohomology and its application to problems in index theory. |
Algebra Seminar Time: 14:30 Room: MC 107 Speaker: Marc Moreno Maza (Western) Title: (Postponed to later date) |