Seminars

The EFNet #math seminar takes place in the #mathematics channel on EFNet. The "talks" are expository in nature and on topics that are usually accessible to a wide audience. #mathematics maybe be moderated while a seminar is in progress. If you have a question (given the channel is not +m), please say "!" and patiently wait for lecturer's attention.

Schedule of Talks

Date Time (EDT) Speaker(s) Topic
March 24, 2004 19:00 nerdy2 Algebraic Number Theory: Rings of algebraic integers, class groups, factorisation, ramification, valuations, ideles, adeles.
May 16, 2004 13:00 nerdy2, dublisk Homological Algebra: Group cohomology, Galois cohomology, Brauer groups, abelian categories, delta and derived functors, derived categories.
November 13 2004 13:00 Kit Filters and Topology: Limits of filters, Tychonoff's theorem, Nets, Topological groups
March 15, 2005 15:00 Kit Counting to Infinity, Ordinals and Transfinite Processes: Set theory. Proofs and constructions by finite and transfinite recursion: e.g the Cantor-Bendixson theorem, cardinality of sigma algebras and strange subsets of R^n. Kit has produced a set of notes (http://www.efnet-math.org/~david/mathematics/ordinals.pdf) for this talk.
May 21, 2005 15:00 Kit Banach Algebras and Automatic Continuity: Basic notions of Banach algebras: Spectrum, characters, jacobson radical, semisimplicity and automatic continuity.
August 28, 2005 15:00 Kit Introduction to Set Theory: Introduction to sets and functions with no prior knowledge assumed. Cardinality of infinite sets, countability, cantor's theorem.
September 24, 2005 22:00 nerdy2 More Algebraic Number Theory: An overview of (local and global) class field theory and applications to quadratic and cubic reciprocity.
October 22, 2005 21:00 nerdy2 Introduction to Galois Theory (with differentiation)
December 10, 2005 16:00 Kit Introduction to Measure Theory and Integration, Part 1: The first in a three part series on measure theory and integration. This one will be an introduction to measure theory itself.
January 14th, 2006 16:00 Kit Introduction to Measure Theory and Integration, Part 2: The second part of the series. This one is on Lebesgue integration.
February 15th 16:00 Kit Introduction to Measure Theory and Integration, Part 3: The third and final part of the series, covering some slightly more advanced subjects in Lebesgue integration including dominated convergence, null sets and the completeness of L1.
June 21, 2006 21:00 Clausen Seminar on General Equilibrium Theory : A look at modelling of supply and demand in many markets across an entire economy. http://www.econ.upenn.edu/~clausen/irc.html
April 27, 2010 16:00 hochs Class Field Theory: Galois Cohomology, some applications including Hilbert Class Fields.
Dates Time Group Seminar Topology and Geometry: General topology, Differentiable Manifolds, Fundamental Group, Homology, Cohomology, Products and Duality, Homotopy Theory.
Dates Time Group Seminar Algebraic Number Theory: Local Fields, Global Fields (adelic/idelic groups), Cyclotomic Fields, Kummer Extensions, Group Cohomology, Profinite Groups, Local and Global Class Field Theory, Zeta-Functions & L-functions, Tate's Thesis (Fourier Analysis in Number Fields).
Dates Time Group Seminar Algebraic Geometry: Schemes, Sheaf Cohomology, Serre Duality, Riemann-Roch, Algebraic Curves.