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News
Pure Math Department celebrates undergraduate achievement at awards tea
On March 24, the department of Pure Mathematics held its annual Undergraduate Awards Tea, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of its remarkable undergraduate students.
Two Pure Math professors win Outstanding Performance Awards
The awards are given each year to faculty members across the University of Waterloo who demonstrate excellence in teaching and research.
Pure Math PhD student wins Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching
The award ($1000), which is given to up to four recipients annually, recognizes excellence in teaching by students, including intellectual vigour, skill in communication and presentation of subject matter, and concern for the needs of students.
Events
Harmonic Analysis Learning Seminar
Annie Lafrance, University of Waterloo
Introduction to p-approximation property for locally compact groups
We will introduce the p-approximation property and show that if G has the p-approximation property, then the algebra of convoluters is the algebra of pseudomeasures.
MC 5403
Differential Geometry Working Seminar
Spiro Karigiannis, University of Waterloo
Organizational Meeting
We will plan out the DG working seminar for the May to August summer period. The plan is to have two talks per week, from 1:00pm to 2:15pm and from 2:30pm to 3:34pm.
MC 5403
Analysis Seminar
Soham Chakraborty, École Normale Supérieure
Measured groupoids and the Choquet-Deny property
A countable discrete group is called Choquet-Deny if for every non-degenerate probability measure on the group, the corresponding space of bounded harmonic functions is trivial. Recently a complete characterization of Choquet-Deny groups was obtained by Frisch, Hartman, Tamuz and Ferdowsi. In this talk, we will look at the extension of the Choquet-Deny property to the framework of discrete measured groupoids. Our main result gives a complete characterisation of this property in terms of the associated measured equivalence relation and the isotropy groups of the groupoid. This talk is based on a joint work with Tey Berendschot, Milan Donvil, Mario Klisse and Se-Jin Kim.
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