UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of March 01, 2026
Monday, March 02

Geometry and Combinatorics

Time: 15:30
Room: MC 108
Speaker: Graham Denham (Western)
Title: Katz's proof of Rota-Heron-Welsh part V

 
Friday, March 06

Graduate Seminar

Time: 16:30
Room: MC 108
Speaker: Tao Gong (Western)
Title: On sections of quotient maps by linear group actions

For a group action $G \curvearrowright X$, the canonical quotient map $\pi \colon X \to X/G$ does not admit a section in general. It is well-known that when $G \subset O(n)$ is generated by reflections, the map $\pi$ admits a section. In this lecture, we will show that the converse is also true. More generally, if $G$ is a properly discontinuous subgroup of the Euclidean group and $\pi$ admits a section, then $G$ is generated by affine reflections.