UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of July 13, 2025
Monday, July 14

Geometry and Topology

Time: 15:30
Room: MC107
Speaker: Enxin Wu (Shantou University)
Title: From calculus and fibre bundles to smooth homological algebra

Function spaces appearing in calculus usually have extra structure besides being a topological vector space. In this talk, we start by examining Borel's lemma from the viewpoint of diffeological vector spaces, where diffeology is a sheaf theoretical way to unify smooth manifolds, infinite-dimensional spaces and singular spaces. This leads to homological algebra in the smooth setting. We will see how fibre bundle theory plays a role there. At the end, we will see some interesting phenomena, together with several conjectures and open questions. This talk includes some joint work with Dan Christensen.