UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of April 05, 2015
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)