2014 Scientific Events

  • 11-Dec-14

Algorithmic Theory of Networks Seminar: Thomas Sauerwald

Balls into Bins via Local Search   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 7-Dec-14
  • 16-Dec-14

ICTS-PIMS-IISER Pune Program on Advances in Mathematical Biology

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

  • 5-Dec-14
  • 8-Dec-14

2014 CMS Winter Meeting

McMaster University

  • 2-Dec-14

CORE Seminar: Peter Bür­gisser

Con­di­tion of Con­vex Opti­miza­tion and Spher­i­cal Intrin­sic Vol­umes   more››

University of Washington

  • 2-Dec-14

Scientific Computation and Applied & Industrial Mathematics Seminar: Eran Treister

Large-scale sparse inverse covariance estimation   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Dec-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Nicolò Sibilla

The topological Fukaya category and mirror symmetry for toric Calabi-Yau threefolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Dec-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Dave Witte Morris

Introduction to Arithmetic Groups   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 28-Nov-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Weiyong He

Geometric flow on almost Hermitian manifolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Nov-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Andrew Harder

Degenerations of Fano varieties and their Landau-Ginzburg models   more››

University of Alberta

  • 26-Nov-14

Probability Seminar: Stefan Adams

Phase Transitions in Continuum Delaunay Potts Models   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Nov-14

Topology Seminar: Marc Hoyois

The six operations of Grothendieck in equivariant motivic homotopy theory   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Nov-14

Scientific Computation and Applied & Industrial Mathematics Seminar: Andrew Wathen

Preconditioning for models of coupled magma/mantle dynamics   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Nov-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Monica Musso

Nondegeneracy of nonradial nodal solutions to Yamabe problem   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Nov-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Kseniya Garaschuk

Some aspects of rational triangle decompositions   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 24-Nov-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Jochen Kuttler

Modules of differentials for Lie algebras   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Nov-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Soroosh Yazdani

Belyi maps and Diophantine Equations   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 21-Nov-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Andrea R. Nahmod

Randomization and long time dynamics in nonlinear evolution PDE   more››

University of Washington

  • 20-Nov-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Jean-Pierre Hulin

Buoyancy driven mixing in confined geometries†   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 19-Nov-14

Topology Seminar: David Carchedi

Differentiable Stacks and Foliation Theory, Part II   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 19-Nov-14

Probability Seminar: Mathav Murugan

Random walks on metric measure spaces   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Nov-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Weiwei Ao

On Non-topological Solutions of the rank 2 Chern-Simons System   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Nov-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Bridget Tenner

Non-messing-up: a surprising sorting result   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 17-Nov-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Bruno Kahn

Applications of birational motives   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 17-Nov-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Manoj Kumar

The Signs in an Elliptic Net   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 14-Nov-14
  • 15-Nov-14
  • 14-Nov-14
  • 13-Nov-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Ching-Yao Chen

Experimental Studies on Self-Assembled Magnetic Microbeads and Ferrofluid Drops   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Nov-14

Mathematics of Information and Applications Seminar: Deanna Needell

Stochastic gradient pursuit methods and their ties to random matrix theory   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Nov-14
  • 14-Nov-14

Natural Gas Research Roundtable

This Roundtable will bring together representatives from all the BC research universities, government and industry to discuss research priorities and explore various mechanisms to promote collaborative engagement and research.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 12-Nov-14

Topology Seminar: David Carchedi

Differentiable Stacks and Foliation Theory, Part I   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Nov-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: James Parks

Averages of the number of points on elliptic curves   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 10-Nov-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Zinovy Reichstein

Versal actions with a twist   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Nov-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Vivek Shende

TBA   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Nov-14

PIMS-URegina Distinguished Lecture Series: Stephen Kirkland

Sensitivity Analysis for Perfect State Transfer in Quantum Spin Networks   more››

University of Regina

  • 7-Nov-14
  • 9-Nov-14

53rd Cascade Topology Seminar

Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff

  • 6-Nov-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: David Saintillan

Living fluids: modeling and simulation of active suspensions   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Nov-14

Mathematics of Information and Applications Seminar: Mike Wakin

The Sketched SVD and Applications in Structural Health Monitoring   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Nov-14

Probability Seminar: Tom Salisbury

Random walk in non-elliptic random environments   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Nov-14

SCAIM Seminar: Purang Abolmaesumi

Interventional Ultrasound for Spine Injections   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Nov-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Justin Chan

An infinite family of inv-Wilf-equivalent permutation pairs   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Nov-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Kenji Nakanishi

Global dynamics of nonlinear dispersive equations above the ground state energy   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Nov-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Amir Akbary

Heuristics for Some Conjectural Constants   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 3-Nov-14

IAM – PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Hermann Eberl

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: From Biofilms to Mathematics & Back Again   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 31-Oct-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Christopher D. Hacon

Which Powers Of A Holomorphic Function Are Integrable?   more››

University of Washington

  • 31-Oct-14

PIMS/UBC/IAM Distinguished Colloquium: Liliana Borcea

Imaging with Waves in Complex Environments   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 29-Oct-14

Topology Seminar: Grigori Avramidi

Constructing aspherical manifolds with a given fundamental group   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 29-Oct-14

Probability Seminar: Julia Komjathy

Degree distribution of shortest path trees and bias in network sampling algorithms   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 28-Oct-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Mingfeng Zhao

Traveling waves involving fractional Laplacians   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Oct-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Ping Xu

Rozansky--Witten-type invariants from symplectic Lie pairs   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Oct-14
  • 31-Oct-14

Course on Shimura Varieties

University of Calgary

  • 27-Oct-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Kevin Henriot

Linear equations in dense subsets of the squares   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 26-Oct-14

UBC/SFU Joint Statistical Seminar

Simon Fraser University, Harbour Center Campus, Vancouver

  • 25-Oct-14

Northwest Probability Seminar

Redmond, Washington, USA

  • 23-Oct-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Alberto Aliseda

Experimental study of turbulent multiphase flows: inertial particles, collisions and bubble dynamics   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 23-Oct-14

Math Biology Seminar: Chad Topaz

Biological aggregations: Nonlocal PDE, random walks, and bugs   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Oct-14

Probability Seminar: Tom Hutchcroft

Unimodular hyperbolic triangulations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Oct-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: David Favero

Equivalences of derived categories of double mirrors   more››

University of Alberta

  • 22-Oct-14

Topology Seminar: Dale Rolfsen

Generalized torsion in knot groups   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Oct-14

SCAIM Seminar: Mark Schmidt

Minimizing finite Sums with the Stochastic Average Gradient   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Oct-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Tingting Huan

Traveling fronts to reaction diffusion equations with fractional Laplacian   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Oct-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Eva Czabarka

Mixed orthogonal arrays and more - part Sperner families   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 20-Oct-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Jim Bryan

Donaldson-Thomas theory of local elliptic surfaces via the topological vertex   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 20-Oct-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Sean Fitzpatrick

Characters of induced representations   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 18-Oct-14

Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar

Portland State University, Oregon

  • 18-Oct-14
  • 17-Oct-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Aixiang Huang

A Dimension Splitting Method for 3D-PDEs   more››

University of Alberta

  • 17-Oct-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Marianna Csörnyei

Geometry of Null Sets   more››

University of Washington

  • 16-Oct-14

Mathematics of Information and Applications Seminar: Felix Krahmer

Suprema of Chaos Processes and the Restricted Isometry Property   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 16-Oct-14
  • 15-Oct-14

Probability Seminar: Paul Tupper

Modelling and simulating systems with state-dependent diffusion   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Oct-14

Topology Seminar: Man Chuen Cheng

The space of almost commuting tuples of unitary matrices   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 14-Oct-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Stefan Le Coz

On the blow-up speed for modified critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Oct-14

PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Benedict Gross

The rank of elliptic curves   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 9-Oct-14

PIMS Alberta Distinguished Lecture: Rafael de la Llave

Geometric Mechanisms for Arnold Diffusion   more››

University of Alberta

  • 7-Oct-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Zachary Bradshaw

Analytical properties for the Navier-Stokes equations and applications   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Oct-14

Math Biology Seminar: Cole Zmurchok

Direction-Dependent Communication in an Individual-Based Model of Collective Behaviour   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Oct-14

IAM – PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Russel Caflisch

From PDEs to Information Science & Back   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Oct-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Nathan Ng

Inclusive Prime Number Races   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 6-Oct-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Gabriel Kerr

Mirror symmetry for the punctured plane   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Oct-14
  • 5-Oct-14

Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada

Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff

  • 2-Oct-14

Calgary Mathematics & Philosophy Lecture: Steve Awodey

Univalence as a New Principle of Logic   more››

University of Calgary

  • 2-Oct-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Ian A. Frigaard

Old Dog: The Bingham fluid model   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Oct-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Patrick Gerard

Large Time behavior for the cubic Szego évolution   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Oct-14

Math Biology Seminar: Justin Munganga

Global Analysis of a Model of Human African Trypanosomiasis   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Oct-14

Topology Seminar: Henrik Rüping

The Status of the Farrell-Jones conjecture   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Oct-14

Probability Seminar: Xinghua Zheng

Solving the high-dimensional Markowitz Optimization Problem: a tale of sparse solutions   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Sep-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Jiaping Wang

Geometry of shrinking Ricci solitons   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Sep-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Emmanuel Hebey

Stationary Kirchhoff systems in closed manifolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Sep-14

Scientific Computation and Applied & Industrial Mathematics Seminar: Chen Greif

Null-Space Based Block Preconditioners for Saddle-Point Systems with a Maximally Rank-Deficient Leading Block   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 29-Sep-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Adam Tyler Felix

Common divisors of the index and order of a modulo p   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 29-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Ravi Vakil

Stabilization of discriminants in the Grothendieck ring   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Colin Diemer

Decomposing Landau-Ginzburg Models   more››

University of Alberta

  • 25-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Matt Ballard

Wall crossing in moduli problems and semi-orthogonal decompositions   more››

University of Alberta

  • 25-Sep-14

Mathematics of Information and Applications Seminar: Rayan Saab

Quantization and near-optimal encoding of linear measurements   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 24-Sep-14

Topology Seminar: Henrik Rüping

Algebraic K-Theory of Group rings and its applications I   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 24-Sep-14

Probability Seminar: Takashi Kumagai

Quenched Invariance Principle for a class of random conductance models with long-range jumps   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 23-Sep-14

Math Biology Seminar: Chiwen Shih

The Kinetics in Mathematical Models on Segmentation Clock Genes in Zebrafish.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 23-Sep-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Baptiste Devyver

General Hardy-type inequalities on manifolds.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Sarah Scherotzke

Graded quiver varieties and derived categories   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Sep-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Farzad Aryan

On Binary and Quadratic Divisor Problem   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 20-Sep-14
  • 21-Sep-14

West Coast Optimization Meeting 14

Simon Fraser University

  • 19-Sep-14

PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Alexander Lubotzky

High dimensional expanders and Ramanujan complexes   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Sep-14

9th Annual Richard & Louise Guy Lecture: Edward Doolittle

Native American Mathematics      more››

University of Calgary

  • 18-Sep-14

Topology Seminar: José Seade

On the Chern classes of singular varieties   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Sep-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Gwynn J. Elfring

Theory of locomotion in complex fluids   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 17-Sep-14

claVision Info Session

 claVision: Canadian Winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup Innovation Competition   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 16-Sep-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Sara Billey

Coxeter-Knuth Graphs and a signed Little map   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 16-Sep-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: John Ma

Singularities in Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 16-Sep-14

SCAIM Seminar: Rustum Choksi

Self-Assemby: Variational Models and Energy Landscapes   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Sep-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Joy Morris

Colour-permuting automorphisms of Cayley graphs   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 15-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Helge Ruddat

Canonical Coordinates from Tropical Curves   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 11-Sep-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Duncan R. Hewitt

High Rayleigh number convection in porous media.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Sep-14

Probability Seminar:Akira Sakai

Critical two-point function for the phi^4 model in dimensions d>4   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 9-Sep-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Henri Berestycki

The effect of a line with fast diffusion on biological invasions   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 8-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Masoud Kamgarpour

Preservation of depth in local geometric Langlands program   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 8-Sep-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Sheldon Katz

Refined and motivic BPS invariants   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 8-Sep-14

Special Lecture: Aria Abubakar

Joint inversion of multiphysics data for petrophysical and engineering properties   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Sep-14

Fluid Mechanics Seminar: Anthony Wachs

Multi-scale modeling of particulate flows   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Sep-14

Math Biology Seminar: Leonid Chindelevitch

Modelling tuberculosis, from cells to populations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Sep-14

Probability Seminar: Codina Cotar

Gradient Gibbs measures with disorder   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Aug-14
  • 29-Aug-14

Exact Solvability and Symmetry Avatars

Centre de Recherches Mathématiques

  • 21-Aug-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Philippe Laurençot

X-harmonic functions, conditioning, and the Martin boundary of Super-Brownian motion   more››

University of Alberta

  • 6-Aug-14
  • 22-Jul-14

SCAIM Seminar: Andrew Stuart

Uncertainty Quantification in Bayesian Inversion   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 8-Jul-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Philippe Laurençot

A Thin Film Approximation of the Muskat Problem   more››

University of Alberta

  • 8-Jul-14
  • 11-Jul-14
  • 7-Jul-14
  • 1-Aug-14
  • 7-Jul-14
  • 12-Jul-14

2014 West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Jul-14

PIMS Public Lecture and French Scholars Lecture Series: Patrick Dehornoy

Set Theory: the last 50 years.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Jul-14

Topology Seminar: Patrick Dehornoy

Laver Tables   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Jul-14
  • 4-Jul-14
  • 23-Jun-14
  • 4-Jul-14
  • 20-Jun-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Adriana Dawes

EGF and Notch signalling in Caenorhabditis vulval development   more››

University of Alberta

  • 18-Jun-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Michel van Garrel

Relative BPS state counts for toric Del Pezzo surfaces   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 17-Jun-14

Math Biology Seminar: Graham Donovan

Modelling Asthma and Clustered Ventilation Defects   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 12-Jun-14

Topology Seminar: Cyril Lecuire

Discontinuous action of Out(Fn) and discrete representations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 9-Jun-14

Topology Seminar: Patrick Reynolds

Laminations, trees, and Out(F)   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 9-Jun-14
  • 13-Jun-14

String Math Conference - 2014

University of Alberta

  • 6-Jun-14

Topology Seminar: José María Cantarero López

Compact Lie groups, p-compact groups and p-local H-spaces   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Jun-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Ravi Ramakrishna

Galois Representations   more››

University of Washington

  • 2-Jun-14
  • 4-Jun-14

11th PIMS Young Researchers Conference

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Jun-14
  • 6-Jun-14

String Math Summer School

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Jun-14
  • 27-Jun-14

2014 Summer School in Probability

University of British Columbia

  • 29-May-14
  • 31-May-14

GAP 2014: Geometry and Physics

University of British Columbia

  • 29-May-14

PIMS Public Seminar: Jim Gates

From the Adinkras of Supersymmetry to the Music of Arnold Schoenberg   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-May-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Zuowei Shen

Image Restoration: Wavelet Frame Approach, Total Variation and Beyond   more››

University of Alberta

  • 27-May-14

Math Biology Seminar: Amanda Swan

Modelling Brain Tumor Spread Using an Anisotropic PDE Model   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-May-14

2014 Niven Lecture - Bjorn Poonen

Undecidability in Number Theory   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-May-14
  • 30-May-14
  • 25-May-14
  • 31-May-14

2014 PIMS Undergraduate Workshop on Supersymmetry

University of British Columbia

  • 23-May-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Gene Abrams

Leavitt path algebras - Something for everyone: algebra, analysis, dynamics, graph theory, number theory   more››

University of Washington

  • 23-May-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Yanyan Li

Estimates for elliptic systems from composite material   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-May-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Freddy Delbaen

Monetary Utility Functions with Convex Level Sets   more››

University of Alberta

  • 22-May-14

Math Biology Seminar: Michael Irvine

Using spatial measures to infer underlying dynamics in clonal vegetative ecosystems   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-May-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Roman Cherniha

A Mathematical Model for Fluid-Glucose-Albumin Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis   more››

University of Alberta

  • 21-May-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Young-Heon Kim

Dynamics of Optimal Partial Transport   more››

University of Alberta

  • 20-May-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: François Hamel

Rearrangement inequalities and applications to elliptic eigenvalue problems   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 19-May-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Shige Peng

Brownian motion under Knightian uncertainty and path-dependent risk   more››

University of Washington

  • 17-May-14
  • 18-May-14
  • 16-May-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Victor Reiner

TBA   more››

University of Washington

  • 13-May-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Leobardo Rosales

The $c$-Plateau problem for surfaces in space   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-May-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Wolfgang Spitzer

Scaling of Rényi entanglement entropies of the free Fermi-gas ground state   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-May-14
  • 16-May-14
  • 12-May-14
  • 14-May-14

PIMS Distinguished Speaker: Minhyong Kim

Arithmetic Fundamental Groups and Diophantine Geometry   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 12-May-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Sung-Jin Oh

Hölder continuous Euler flows with compact support in space-time   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-May-14
  • 11-May-14
  • 8-May-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Dan Spielman

Spectral Sparsification of Graphs   more››

University of Washington

  • 6-May-14
  • 9-May-14

TRUe Games

Combinatorial Game Theory   more››

Thompson Rivers University

  • 3-May-14
  • 6-May-14
  • 2-May-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Steffen Rohde

TBA   more››

University of Washington

  • 2-May-14
  • 3-May-14
  • 1-May-14
  • 2-May-14

Alberta Mathematics Dialogue

University of Alberta

  • 25-Apr-14

PIMS-CSC Distinguished Speaker Series: L. Mahadevan

Interplay Between the Discrete and Continuum in Soft Matter   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 25-Apr-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Roman Bezrukavnikov

 Characters of finite Chevalley groups and categorification   more››

University of Washington

  • 22-Apr-14

Discrete Math Seminar: David Bryant

The Geometry of Hypergraphs   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 20-Apr-14
  • 25-Apr-14

Women in Numbers 3

Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff

  • 19-Apr-14
  • 20-Apr-14

Cascade Topology Seminar

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

  • 18-Apr-14
  • 20-Apr-14

2014 Alberta Number Theory Days

Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff

  • 18-Apr-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Dan Shumow

From Algebraic Geometry to Politics: How Cryptography Connects Abstract Mathematics and Everyday Life   more››

University of Washington

  • 15-Apr-14

Computer Science Seminar: David Bryant

TBA   more››

University of Victoria

  • 15-Apr-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Filip Rindler

Directional oscillations, concentrations, and compensated compactness via microlocal compactness forms   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Apr-14

Topology Seminar: Thomas Koberda

Anti-trees and right-angled Artin subgroups of planar braid groups   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Apr-14
  • 16-Apr-14

PIMS Analytic RNA Combinatorics Workshop (PARC)

This two day workshop focuses on the combinatorial aspects of RNA secondary structure.   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 14-Apr-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Soroosh Yazdani

Modular curves and moduli problems   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 14-Apr-14

On an additive semi-graphoid model for statistical networks with application to pathway analysis

On an additive semi-graphoid model for statistical networks with application to pathway analysis   more››

University of Calgary

  • 11-Apr-14

CSC-PIMS Seminar: David Bryant

Next Generation Sequence Analysis Using Last Generation's Mathematics   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 11-Apr-14

PIMS Distinguished Speakers Series: Brendan Pass

 Multi-marginal optimal transport   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 10-Apr-14

2014 PIMS-UBC Statistics Constance Van Eeden Lecture

The Lasso: A Brief Review and a New Significance Test   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 9-Apr-14

Topology Seminar: Ryan Budney

Triangulations of 4-manifolds and a table of knots in homotopy 4-spheres   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Apr-14

PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture: Mathieu Desbrun

Geometric discretization for computational modeling   more››

Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro

  • 7-Apr-14

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture: Niky Kamran

General Relativity, Differential Geometry and Differential Equations; Stories From a Successful Menage-a-trois   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Apr-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: James Parks

Amicable pairs and aliquot cycles on average   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Apr-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Mathieu Huruguen

Special reductive groups over an arbitrary field   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Apr-14

Bellingham Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Western Washington University, Bellingham

  • 4-Apr-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Xiaowei Wang

Stability and compactification of moduli   more››

University of Alberta

  • 3-Apr-14

Math Biology Seminar: John Stockie

Mathematical modelling of sap flow in maple trees   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Apr-14

Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: Monica S. Lam

How Mobile Can Disrupt Social   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Apr-14

Topology Seminar: Ian Hambleton

Finite group actions and chain complexes over the orbit category   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 2-Apr-14

Probability Seminar: Stefan Adams

Gibbs formalism for Random Permutations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Apr-14

Statistics Seminar: David Bryant

TBD   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Apr-14

SCAIM Seminar: Jessica Bosch

Preconditioning for vector-valued Cahn–Hilliard equations.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 31-Mar-14

IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Mason Alexander Porter

Cascades and Social Influence on Networks   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 31-Mar-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Allysa Lumley

New bounds for $\psi(x; q, a)$   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 29-Mar-14
  • 30-Mar-14

Mathematics and HIV

Operations Research and Network Modeling for HIV Treatment and Prevention   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 28-Mar-14

PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Linda Petzold

The Emerging Roles and Computational Challenges of Stochasticity in Biological Systems.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 28-Mar-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Yi Shen

Stability of Elastic Net Estimator for Random Matrices”   more››

University of Alberta

  • 26-Mar-14

Topology Seminar: Alejandro Adem

A Classifying Space for Commutativity for Lie Groups   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Mar-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Christian Sadel

Complex analytic, one-frequency cocycles   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Mar-14

SCAIM Seminar: Christoph Ortner

Accelerating the Dimer Algorithm for Computing Saddle Points   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Mar-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Rami Tabbara

Counting two interacting friendly walks near an attractive surface   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 24-Mar-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Ted Dobson

On Cayley Numbers   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 24-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Emanuele Macri

Curves on Irreducible Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Mar-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Weiyong He

Complex Monge-Ampere equation on Kahler manifolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Mar-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Martin Buhmann

Interpolants with Radial Basis Functions and Parameters   more››

University of Alberta

  • 21-Mar-14

Semiparametric Mixture Models and Their Applications

Semiparametric Mixture Models and Their Applications   more››

University of Calgary

  • 20-Mar-14

Math Biology Seminar: Ignacio Rozada

Getting rid of Hepatitis C for good: Modelling the effect of a test and treat strategy for HCV prevention in British Columbia.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 19-Mar-14

Probability Seminar: Gordon Slade

Scaling limits and critical behaviour of the 4-dimensional n-component phi^4 spin model   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 19-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Tyler Kelly

TBA   more››

University of Alberta

  • 19-Mar-14

Topology Seminar: Benjamin Antieau

Algebraic topology and algebraic torsors   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Mar-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Bruce Shepherd

Worst-case performance of online vector bin packing   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 18-Mar-14

SCAIM Seminar: Dominique Orban

The Projected Golub-Kahan Process for Constrained Linear Least-Squares Problems   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 17-Mar-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Peter Zvengrowski

The Riemann zeta function: a horizontal view point   more››

University of Regina

  • 17-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Jun Li

Categorified Donaldson-Thomas invariants for sheaves   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 16-Mar-14

UBC-SFU Joint Graduate Student Seminar Series

Simon Fraser University, Harbour Center Campus, Vancouver

  • 15-Mar-14

Frontiers in Biophysics

Mathematical modelling of problems in cellular and molecular biology, single molecule studies and networks of interacting biomolecules.   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 14-Mar-14

PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Robert Guralnick

Finite Simple Groups and Applications   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 14-Mar-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Ming Mei

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Euler-Poisson Equations for Bipolar Semiconductor Models   more››

University of Alberta

  • 13-Mar-14

UBC Number Theory Seminar: Olivier Ramaré

Prime numbers: emergence and relevance of bilinear forms decomposition   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Mar-14

Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael Kearns & Colin Camerer

Beyond Economic Rationality  Speaker #1:  Michael Kearns, University of PennsylvaniaTitle/Abstract:  TBA  Speaker #2:  Colin Camerer, CaltechTitle:  Limits on str   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 12-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: James Lewis

A Variation of the Beilinson-Hodge Conjecture.   more››

University of Alberta

  • 12-Mar-14

Probability Seminar: Stefan Adams

Large deviations and gradient flow   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 11-Mar-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Philippe Castillon

Spectral positivity on surfaces   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Andrei Caldararu

The de Rham complex from the point of view of twisted derived intersections   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Mar-14

IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Michele Benzi

Complex Networks for Mathematicians   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Mar-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Amir Akbary

Introduction to the ABC Conjecture   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 10-Mar-14

PIMS-UBC Statistics Constance Van Eeden Lecture: Rob Tibshirani

The Lasso: a brief review and a new significance test.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Mar-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

A gentle stroll around the Goldbach's conjecture   more››

University of Calgary

  • 7-Mar-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Neal Koblitz

A Mathematician in the World of Cybersecurity   more››

University of Washington

  • 6-Mar-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

A Comparison of Perron’s Formula and Smoothing   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 6-Mar-14

Math Biology Seminar: Joe Yuichiro Wakano

Evolutionary branching in deme-structured populations   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Mar-14

Number Theory Seminar: Sharon Frechette

Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series of type C_n   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Mar-14

Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: David Woodruff

Sketching as a Tool for Numerical Linear Algebra   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Mar-14

Topology Seminar: Samuel Taylor

Right-angled Artin subgroups of mapping class groups and Out(F)   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Peter Overholser

An introduction to the Gross-Siebert program (Part II)   more››

University of Alberta

  • 5-Mar-14

Probability Seminar: Gourab Ray

Hyperbolic random maps and unicellular maps   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Mar-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

Log-free Zero-density Estimates (2 of 2)   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 4-Mar-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

Log-free Zero-density Estimates (1 of 2)   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 4-Mar-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Louis-Philippe Saumier Demers

Optimal Transport-based Model and Algorithms for Particle Image Velocimetry   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Mar-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Jim Carrell

Surjectivity and lifting the Weyl group action to the equivariant cohomology of a Springer fibre.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Mar-14

IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Thomas Strohmer

Phase Retrieval, Random Matrices and Convex Optimization   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Mar-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Daniel Fiorilli

Nuclear Physics and Number Theory   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 28-Feb-14
  • 1-Mar-14

The 14th Colloquiumfest

University of Saskatchewan

  • 28-Feb-14

PIMS Lethbridge Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium: Olivier Ramaré

Extremal Problems of Large Primes in Small Intervals   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 28-Feb-14

PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Jaroslav Nesetril

Sparse - Dense Phenomena   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Feb-14

Math Bio Seminar: Jaroslav Ispolatov

Chaos and Unpredictability in Evolution   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Feb-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Daniel Halpern-Leistner

Instability in algebraic geometry   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Feb-14

PIMS Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Hans-Christian Herbig

On the Poisson geometry of symplectic quotients.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Feb-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Peter Overholser

An introduction to the Gross-Siebert program (Part I).   more››

University of Alberta

  • 26-Feb-14

Topology Seminar: Kirsten Wickelgren

Towards a motivic simplicial EHP spectral sequence   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 26-Feb-14

Probability Seminar: Alain-Sol Sznitman

Large deviations and disconnection for random interlacements   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Feb-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

Large Values of Dirichlet Polynomials: an Introduction   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 25-Feb-14

SCAIM Seminar: Jodi Mead

Statistical Tests for Regularization in Ill-posed Inverse Problems.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Feb-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Catherine Searle

How to lift positive Ricci curvature   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 25-Feb-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Mike Zabrocki

Schur analogues in non-commutative symmetric functions   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 24-Feb-14

PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Olivier Ramaré

A Practical Example of Using a Bilinear Decomposition on the Moebius Function     more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 24-Feb-14

PIMS Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Olivier Ramaré

Bilinear Forms on Prime Numbers   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 24-Feb-14

IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Paul K. Newton

Random Walks, Markov Chains, and Cancer Metastasis Models   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Feb-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: James Colliander

Big frequency cascades in the nonlinear Schrödinger evolution   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 12-Feb-14

Probability Seminar: Alexander Tomberg

Logarithmic corrections to scaling for the 4 dimensional weakly self-avoiding walk: watermelon networks   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 12-Feb-14

Topology Seminar: Hossein Namazi

Masur criterion analog for OUT(F) and applications   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 11-Feb-14

PIMS / AMI Seminar: Kaitai Li

Shape Optimization for Navier-Stokes Boundary and Dimensional Splitting Methods   more››

University of Alberta

  • 10-Feb-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Joy Morris

Automorphisms of Cayley graphs that respect partitions   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 6-Feb-14

Math Biology Seminar: Nilima Nigam

A Mathematical Model of Bone Remodeling at the Cellular Level   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 6-Feb-14
  • 5-Feb-14

Bruhat-Tits Theory Seminar

Parhoric group schemes   more››

University of Calgary

  • 5-Feb-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Terry Gannon

P-curvature and modular forms   more››

University of Alberta

  • 5-Feb-14

UBC Mathematics Colloquium: Enrique Zuazua

Optimal placement of sensors and actuators for waves   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Feb-14

Topology Seminar: Yoav Moriah

The Curve Complex and 3-Manifolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Feb-14

Probability Seminar: Louis Fan

Systems of reflected diffusions with annihilations through membranes   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 4-Feb-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Enrique Zuazua

Flow control in the presence of shocks   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Feb-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Ben Williams

The Higher Chow Groups of GLn.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Feb-14

IAM-PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Russel Caflisch - CANCELLED

From PDEs to Information Science and Back   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 3-Feb-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar

Numerical Methods in p-adic Linear Algebra   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 30-Jan-14

Math Biology Seminar: Hildur Knutsdottir & Josh Scurll

Developing a personalized, adaptive treatment strategy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Jan-14

Discrete Math Seminar: Bruce Sheperd

Designing a Network for Uncertain Demand.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 29-Jan-14

Topology Seminar: Ben Williams

Period & Index in Locally Ringed Topoi II   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 29-Jan-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Sara Filippini

Type equations and tropical curves   more››

University of Alberta

  • 28-Jan-14

SCAIM Seminar: Sherry Li

Towards an optimal-order approximate sparse factorization exploiting data-sparseness in separators   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 28-Jan-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Juan Davila

Entire stable solutions of a 4rth order elliptic equation and a monotonicity formula   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Jan-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Ed Richmond

The fibre bundle structure of smooth and rationally smooth Schubert varieties   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Jan-14

Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Mohammadreza Jooyandeh

Recursive Algorithms for Generation of Planar Graphs   more››

University of Lethbridge

  • 23-Jan-14

Math Biology Seminar: Carlos Castillo Chavez

Behavior, Dispersal and Epidemics: A Challenging Frontier   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Jan-14

Topology Seminar: Ben Williams

Period & Index in Locally Ringed Topoi   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 22-Jan-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Daniel Robbins

Constraining higher derivative corrections with T-duality   more››

University of Alberta

  • 21-Jan-14

SCAIM Seminar: Peter Fox

University of British Columbia

  • 21-Jan-14

Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Hassan Jaber

Hardy-Sobolev equations and related inequalities on compact Riemannian manifolds   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 16-Jan-14

Math Biology Seminar: Caroline Colijn

Pathogen phylogenies reveal ecological competition   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Jan-14

2014 Math Institutes Open House

2014 Mathematical Institutes Open House – Celebrating the Conclusion of MPE2013   more››

None

  • 14-Jan-14

SCAIM Seminar: Lars Ruthotto

On Programming Languages for Scientific Computing   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 14-Jan-14

Probability Seminar: Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Large deviations for diffusions interacting through their ranks   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Jan-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Bianca Viray

The local to global principle for rational points   more››

University of Washington

  • 13-Jan-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Jose Gonzalez

Topics on algebraic cobordism   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Jan-14

Geometry and Physics Seminar: Ugo Bruzzo

Framed sheaves on root stacks and gauge theory on ALE spaces   more››

University of Alberta

  • 10-Jan-14

UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Wei Ho

Arithmetic invariant theory and applications   more››

University of Washington

  • 10-Jan-14

PIMS-CSC Distinguished Speaker Series: David Levermore

Hierarchies in Simulation-Based Science and Engineering   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 10-Jan-14
  • 11-Jan-14

Applied Math Workshop

Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Related Models   more››

Simon Fraser University

  • 9-Jan-14

PIMS/UVic Lecture: Michael Tsatsomeros

The Envelope of a Matrix   more››

University of Victoria