Jan Minac
Field Theory class March 31, 2009
Jan Minac
Exploring the jungle of Galois groups Artist: Nikita Maria Findlay
Jan Minac Jan Minac
Sherlock Holmes Mathematical Theater at The University of Western Ontario 2008 With Vaclav Havel
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A U-invariant on the Roof  A U-invariant on the Roof 

Research

  • Here is a nice paper (pages 121-137) entitled: Étude Kummerienne de la q-suite Centrale Descendante d'un Groupe de Galois by Professor Thong Nguyen Quang Do, related to my joint work with Sunil Chebolu, Ido Efrat, and Michel Spira, as well as the recent work of Romyar Sharifi and others. (Loading this document for viewing may take a couple of minutes. Thank you for your patience.)
  • Here is another nice paper by Professors Fedor Bogomolov and Yuri Tschinkel entitled: Introduction to birational anabelian geometry in "Current Developments in Algebraic Geometry", (L. Caporaso, J. McKernan, M. Mustata, M. Popa, editors), pages 17-63, MSRI Publications Vol. 59, Cambridge University Press, (2012). This is a great description of this exciting area, and it includes some of my current work with S. Chebolu and I. Efrat.
  • Here is a link to three talks delivered by Adam Topaz at the exciting University of Pennsylvania Galois Seminar 2009-2010 and 2012-2013. The first two talks delivered in 2009 concern my paper co-authored with S. Chebolu and I. Efrat, published in Math. Ann. ("Quotients of absolute Galois groups which determine the entire Galois cohomology", Volume 352 (2012), no. 1, 205-221) which at the time of these talks was not yet published, but was posted on the arXiv. The second talk (November 4, 2009) is available on video, and the third talk (November 2, 2012) is concerning my joint work with Adam Topaz and John Swallow, and its subsequent continuation with Adam. The first paper is on the arXiv and the second paper is 'work in progress'.
    Specializations:

    Algebraic Number Theory, Galois Cohomology, Quadratic Forms, Field Theory, Brauer Groups, Algebraic K-Theory, Algebraic Geometry, and Algebraic Topology

    Research interests:

    Bloch-Kato conjecture, quadratic forms, Galois groups and cohomology, Grothendieck's anabelian geometry, zeta functions, analytic pro-p-groups, algebraic K-theory, cohomology of finite p-groups, Galois groups of maximal p-extensions with given set of ramification points, stable homotopy category and Freyd's generating hypothesis. I am also very interested in both finite generation of Tate cohomology and Lie algebras associated with Galois groups.

    PUBLICATIONS (For some possible updates, please see my C.V. above.)

Teaching

    FALL 2012:

    WINTER / SPRING 2012:

    Math 1120b - Fundamental Concepts in Math
    Teaching for the Winter semester is DONE! Here is the cover page from the Math 1120b Final Examination, showing some of my HEROS to inspire, to delight, to motivate...
    Math 1120b - Fundamental Concepts in Math Homework (February 13):
    Homework misprint: An obvious misprint managed to sneak into this second homework, namely in Exercise 6 in Example One, the 1 of the first row of the representing function f should be 2!
    Homework correction: I am very grateful to Awasung who pointed out that in Exercise 7a, k can also be zero (not just a natural number). Thank you, Awasung!
    Homework misprint (one more): Misprints in mathematical texts can be as annoying as mosquitoes disturbing idyllic moments. I am grateful to Tyson for pointing out that in Exercise 6 s could be any integer ∈ Z (not necessarily just 0 or in N).
    Math 1120b - Fundamental Concepts in Math Course Homepage (kindly prepared by Tyson Davis)
    FALL 2011:

    Faculty of Education workshop - November 30, 2011, Althouse College. (Invited by Professor Immaculate Kizito Namukasa, workshop organizer.) Session on Teaching Math and Science through Story, Drama and Song, organized by Dr. George Gadanidis. Workshop led by Ján Mináč: "Hands-On Activities on Integrating Theatre in High School Mathematics Teaching".
    2010:

    Before 2010:

Editorial Work

American Mathematical Society

    Member of the American Mathematical Society Committee for Human Rights

Algebra Seminar Schedule - Fall 2012

Organized jointly with Derek Krepski

Timo Hanke (RWTH Aachen University)August 29, 2012
Danny Neftin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)August 31, 2012
Detlev Hoffmann (Technical University of Dortmund)September 13 and 14, 2012
Lex Renner (Western University)September 28, 2012
Francois-Xavier Machu (Western University)October 12, 2012
Colloquium Talk with Vestislav Apostolov (UQAM)October 19, 2012
Hugo Bacard (Western University)October 26, 2012
Stefan Tohaneanu (Western University)November 2, 2012
Jaydeep Chipalkatti (University of Manitoba)November 9, 2012
Claudio Quadrelli (Western University)November 16, 2012
Nyugen Duy Tan (Western University)November 23, 2012
Jochen Gärtner (Heidelberg)November 30, 2012, 10:30 a.m.
Christian Maire (Université de Franche-Comté)November 30, 2012, 2:30 p.m.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

CURRENT PH.D. STUDENTS

    Ali ALKHAIRY

    Fatemeh Bagherzadeh GOLMAKANI (joint supervision with Matthias Franz)

    Michael ROGELSTAD

    Zackary WOLSKE
FORMER PH.D. STUDENTS

Priyavrat DESHPANDE (2007-2011), Ph.D. obtained 2011 (joint supervision with Graham Denham)
German COMBARIZA (2006-2010), Ph.D. obtained 2010 (joint supervision with Alejandro Adem)
Vahid SHIRBISHEH (2006-2007), Ph.D. obtained 2007(additional supervision of Vahid carried out by A. Dhillon and N. Lemire (2006-7) and M. Khalkhali (2003-5))
Ganesh BHANDARI (2001-2005), Ph.D. obtained 2005
Dan McQUILLAN (1992-1998), Ph.D. obtained 1998
Wenfeng GAO (1993-1996), Ph.D. obtained 1996

Current Master's Students

    Majed ALBAITY
Former Master's Students

    Mohammed ALTHAGAFI (M.Sc. completed 2012)

    Behzad NIKZAD (M.Sc. completed 2012)

    Claudio QUADRELLI (M.Sc. completed 2010) (joint supervision with Thomas Weigel)

    John SEWCHAND (M.Sc. completed 1997)

    John SHERIFF (M.Sc. completed 1991)

    PAST ALGEBRA SEMINARS:
    THIS PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION (August 6, 2011)
    VISITING INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLAR 2010
Claudio Quadrelli (visiting undergraduate scholar under joint supervision with Professor Thomas Weigel, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
    SCHOLAR'S ELECTIVES PROGRAM
Scholar's Electives Program students 2009-2010: Behzad Nikzad Scholar's Electives Program students 2010-2011: Joanne Colling
    LINKS
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Dave Benson Ganesh Bhandari Julien Blondeau Fedor A. Bogomolov Enrico Bombieri Jon F. Carlson Gunnar Carlsson
Sunil Chebolu Dan Christensen Fred Cohen Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène Alain Connes Henri Darmon Pierre Deligne
Graham Denham Ajneet Dhillon Vladimir G. Drinfeld David Eisenbud Ido Efrat Ivan Fesenko Matthias Franz
Edward Frenkel Eric Friedlander Tony Geramita Stefan Gille Richard Gonzales Andrew Granville Pierre Guillot
Richard M. Hain Dan Haran David Harbater Detlev Hoffmann Mark Hovey Moshe Jarden Rick Jardine
Lila Kari Nikita Karpenko Nicholas M. Katz Louis Kauffman Masoud Khalkhali Maxim Kontsevich Boris Kunyavskii
John Labute Tsit Yuen Lam Robert Langlands Nicole Lemire Hendrik W. Lenstra James Lewis Elon Lindenstrauss
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Ram Murty Jan Nekovář Raman Parimala Julia Pevtsova Florian Pop Gopal Prasad Andrew Ranicki
Zinovy Reichstein Lex Renner Ken Ribet David Riley Markus Rost Karl Rubin Shuji Saito
Peter Sarnak Alexander Schmidt Éric Schost Andrew Schultz Jean-Pierre Serre Alexandru I. Suciu Andrei Suslin
John Swallow Nguyen Duy Tan Terence Tao John Tate Stefan Tohaneanu Adam Topaz Yuri Tschinkel
Ravi Vakil Alexander Vishik Vladimir Voevodsky Adrian Wadsworth Michel Waldschmidt Charles Weibel Thomas Weigel
Andrew Wiles Kay Wingberg Kirill Zainoulline Efim Zelmanov

Telephone: 519-661-2111 x 86519
Fax: 519-661-3610

E-mail: minacw at uwo dot caw (remove the two "w"s before using)

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