The Basic Notions Seminar of the Mathematics Department is devoted to Mathematics as a whole with emphasis on topics connecting different subfields. The talks are intended to be at the level accessible to graduate students.

The goal is to provide an opportunity for learning about things that are important (basic) for contemporary mathematics, but yet not as widely known as they probably should.

The seminar meets on Fridays, 4:00-5:00 each week during the academic year in room 208 Deady.

For questions or suggestions contact Arkady Vaintrob

Fall Quarter, 2005

• October 7 - Victor Ostrik - University of Oregon.
  Linear algebra and Dynkin diagrams.
• October 14 - Dan Dugger - University of Oregon.
  Counting points over finite fields.
• October 21 - Greg Landweber - University of Oregon.
  Borel-Weil theorem.
• October 28 - Jon Brundan - University of Oregon.
  Quantum linear algebra.
• November 4 - Arkady Vaintrob - University of Oregon.
  Quantum Calculus.
• November 11 - Pavel Etingof - MIT.
  TBA.
• November 18 - Peng Lu - University of Oregon.
  TBA.
• December 2 - Sasha Kleshchev - University of Oregon.
  TBA.