ALGEBRA AND LOGIC SEMINAR
of the
Research Unit "Algebra and Logic"
at the College of Arts and Science
106 Wiggins Road
Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E6, Canada
Phone: (306) 966-6081 - Fax: (306) 966-6086

The Algebra and Logic Seminar is organized by the Research Unit "Algebra and Logic"

PAST TALKS


The seminar in 2003-2004 Term 2 will be a reading seminar covering various topics in Real Algebraic Geometry. The main source for the material will be the first 7 chapters of the book "Real Algebraic Geometry" by Bochnak-Coste-Roy, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Time : Monday and Friday, 10:30 - 11:45
Place: MCHL 201 (the lounge)
 

Monday January 19.

Manuela Haias (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Uniqueness of Real Closures


Friday January 23, Monday January 26.

Murray Marshall (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Tarski-Seidenberg Theorem for Beginners

Lecture notes (ps file).


Friday January 30, Monday February 2.

Pawel Gladki (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Linear Programming and Semidefinite Programming


Friday February 6, Monday February 9.

Mahshid Atapour (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

PSD Polynomials of Degree 4 in 3 Variables


Monday February 23.

Bogdan Lataianu (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Hilbert's 17th Problem


Friday February 27, Monday March 1.

Mahshid Atapour (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Convex Sets in Real n-Space


Friday March 5, Friday March 12.

Mahshid Atapour (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Sheaves of Regular Functions


Monday March 15, Friday March 19.

Pawel Gladki (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Non-Singular Points


Monday March 22, Friday March 26, Monday March 29.

Murray Marshall (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Real Algebraic Sets: Basic Steps

Lecture notes (ps file).


Friday April 2, Monday April 5.

Pawel Gladki (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Regular Local Rings


Thursday April 8, Monday April 12.

Svetlana Morozova (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Nilpotent Groups and Universal Equivalence


Friday April 16, Monday April 19.

Mohamed El-Bachroui (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Convolution over Lie and Jordan algebras


Thursday, April 22, Tuesday April 27, Thursday April 29, Tuesday May 11, Thursday May 13.

Trevor Green (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Exponentials and logarithms on power series fields


Wednesday, July 14 -August 19.

Pawel Gladki (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

Mini-Course on
 

The algebraic theory of quadratic forms

Lecture notes (ps file).

PAST TALKS 2003-2004


Saturday, October 18, 10:00 am, 2003, Saturday, October 25, 10:00 am, 2003:

Murray Marshall (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Error estimates in the optimization of  degree two polynomials on the discrete hypercube


Saturday, November 1, 10:00 am, 2003:

Svetlana Morozova (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

On covers in the lattice of representible l-varieties and basic ranks of some solvable quasivarieties


Saturday, November 8, 10:00 am, 2003:

Svetlana Morozova (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Basic ranks of some solvable l-quasivarieties. Weath products and universal equivalence


Saturday, November 15, 10:00 am, 2003:

Danielle Gondard (University of Paris 6)

will talk on

Higher level orderings and R-places


Saturday, November 22, 10:00 am, 2003:

Murray Marshall (Research Unit Algebra and Logic)

will talk on

Multifields, multirings and applications to quadratic form theory

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