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.
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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 |