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Consider two finitely generated field extensions K and L of the same transcendence degree over some base field F. Suppose these extensions become isomorphic over F after adjoining some variables. Does this imply that K isalready isomorphic to L over...

Decomposable abelian varieties, and particularly decomposable Jacobians, have a long history; mainly in the form of formulas to compute hyperelliptic integrals in terms of elliptic ones. The first case where one can have a decomposable Jacobian...

Deep learning-based approaches have succeeded surprisingly in various fields of sciences. In particular, one of the first and most successful achievements of them is image classification. Now, deep learning-based algorithms perform even better than...

For a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, let $\mathcal{S}(G)$ be the set of all $n\times n$ real symmetric matrices $A=[a_{i,j}]$ with $a_{i,j}\neq 0$ if and only if $\{i,j\}$ is an edge of $G$. There are no restrictions on the diagonal entries of $A$...

In Allen's talk, we learned that the deformations of an algebra A can be classified by certain Hochschild cohomology classes. In this talk, we will see that the Hochschild cochains of A can be endowed with a differential graded (DG) Lie algebra...

One of the central questions in developmental biology is how organs form in the correct positions in order to create a functional mature organism. Plant leaves offer an easily observable example of organ positioning, with species-specific motifs for...

In this talk, I will summarize the research on enriched algebraic theories, monads, and varieties that I produced with Rory Lucyshyn-Wright during my previous postdoctoral fellowship at Brandon University. I will start by providing a historical...

In this talk, I will present the recent progress of understanding adversarial multiclass classification problems, motivated by the empirical observation of the sensitivity of neural networks by small adversarial attacks. From the perspective of...

TBC

I will introduce the Monomer-Dimer model, a Gibbs probability measure on the space of (not necessarily perfect) weighted matchings on a graph. I will recap some known results of Heilmann and Lieb which establish the absence of a phase transition. I...