Pizza Seminar

Speaker: Shiyamalen Thavandiran (Western)

"The NSA Back Door to NIST"

Time: 16:30

Room: MC 108

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.

Noncommutative Geometry

Speaker: Alimjon Eshmatov (Western University (Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow))

"Noncommutative Poisson Structures III"

Time: 15:00

Room: MC 107

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.

Noncommutative Geometry

Speaker: Masoud Khalkhali (Western University)

"Introduction to cyclic cohomology and its applications"

Time: 11:00

Room: MC 106

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

Speaker: Marc Moreno Maza (Western)

"(Postponed to later date)"

Time: 14:30

Room: MC 107