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Monday, May 4, 2015

12:00 pm in 341 AH,Monday, May 4, 2015

#### The Differential Structure of an Orbifold

###### Jordan Watts (UIUC Math)

Abstract: There are many ways of viewing an (effective) orbifold besides the classical way: as a Lie groupoid, a stack, a diffeological space, a (Sikorski) differential space, a topological space... Not all of these are equivalent. In fact, in the categorical sense, all of the above categories are generally completely different. However, when restricting our attention to "quotients" of manifolds by proper Lie group actions, there is a chain of functors between the above categories, each of which forgets information along the way. If we ignore "maps between orbifolds" and focus only on a fixed orbifold, one may ask: how far along this chain of functors can one go before losing so much information that our orbifold cannot be recovered? (Going all the way to topological spaces, for example, would be too far.) In this talk I will answer this question with "differential spaces". This category generalises the category of manifolds, and includes as objects arbitrary sets equipped with special rings of functions. I will give a minimal set of invariants required to "remember" the orbifold, and show that these all live in the category of differential spaces. Going back to our chain of categories above, what I will be showing can be restated as follows: there is a functor from orbifolds (as effective proper étale Lie groupoids, say) to differential spaces that is essentially injective.

4:00 pm in Altgeld Hall 145,Monday, May 4, 2015

#### Weight Enumerators for Linear Codes and Zeta Functions

###### Dane Skabelund   [email] (UIUC Math)

Abstract: Associated to the weight enumerator of a q-ary linear block code is a rational generating function Z(T), which in several ways is formally analogous to the zeta function of a curve over a finite field. When the code C is self dual, then Z(T) satisfies a functional equation which implies that all zeros of Z(T) have absolute value q^1/2. In some circumstances all these zero seem to lie a circle of constant radius. There is also a bound involving the zeros of Z(T) for the minimum distance of the code C which is analogous to the Weil bound for the number of points on a curve over Fq. I will talk about these things, and give an application. All of this will be a summary of work of Iwan Duursma.

5:00 pm in 241 Altgeld Hall,Monday, May 4, 2015

#### C*-algebras and Continued Fractions

###### Florin Boca (Math UIUC)

Abstract: We will continue from last time.