UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of October 13, 2019
Tuesday, October 15

Quantum Geometry

Time: 11:00
Room: MC 108
Speaker: Masoud Khalkhali (Western)
Title: Combinatorics of Feynman diagrams and quantum field theory IV

 
Thursday, October 17

Colloquium

Time: 15:30
Room: MC 108
Speaker: Boris Khesin (Toronto)
Title: Integrability of pentagram maps and KdV hierarchies

We describe pentagram maps on polygons in any dimension, which extend R.Schwartz's definition of the 2D pentagram map. Many of those maps turn out to be discrete integrable dynamical systems, while the corresponding continuous limits of such maps coincide with equations of the KdV hierarchy, generalizing the Boussinesq equation in 2D. We discuss their geometry, Lax forms, and interrelations between several recent pentagram generalizations.

 
Friday, October 18

Algebraic Geometry

Time: 15:30
Room: WSC 187
Speaker: Nicole Lemire (Western)
Title: Lambda operations