Scientific Lectures

  • 15-Nov-12

Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: Jan Vondrak

Submodular Functions and Their Applications   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 15-Nov-12

Mathematical Biology Seminar: William Carlquist

A computationally Efficient Method for Solving Reaction Diffusion Equations in Rod-Cell Geometry   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 14-Nov-12

Topology Seminar: Alejandro Adem

Cohomology and K-theory of Crystallographic Groups I   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 14-Nov-12

Probability Seminar: Yan-Xia Ren

Strong law of large numbers for superprocesses   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Nov-12

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Olivier Benoist

Codimension 2 complete intersections in P^N have a natural parameter space that is a projective bundle over a projective space given by the data of the two equations. In this talk, we will be interested in the birational geometry of this paramete   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Nov-12

SCAIM Seminar: Tim Rees

The numerical solution of the Taylor-Goldstein equation   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 13-Nov-12

Coast to Coast Seminar Series

Two of the strongest environmental laws in the country, the Fisheries Act and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, were significantly altered with the recent passing of the federal omnibus budget bill. Join us for a discussion about the ramific   more››

University of Calgary

  • 13-Nov-12

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Yunfeng Jiang

On the Crepant Transformation Conjecture   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 10-Nov-12
  • 8-Nov-12

Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series: Judeah Pearl

The Mathematics of Cause and Effect   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 8-Nov-12

Mathematical Biology Seminar: Omer Dushek

Non-catalytic tyrosine-phosphorylated receptors   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 7-Nov-12

Probability Seminar: Eviatar Procaccia

Asymptotic behavior of the Cheeger constant of super-critical percolation in the square lattice   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 5-Nov-12

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Amnon Yekutieli

Residues and Duality for Schemes and Stacks   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 1-Nov-12

2012 Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Henri Darmon (McGill)

Title: Numbers and Shapes Abstract: Number theory is concerned with Diophantine equations and their solutions, encoded in discrete structures involving integers, rational numbers  or algebraic quantities. Topology studie   more››

University of Calgary

  • 1-Nov-12

Mathematical Biology Seminar: Jun Allard

Actin traveling waves in motile cells   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 31-Oct-12

Topology Seminar: Benedict Williams

The Brauer Group and Obstruction Theory   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Oct-12

SCAIM Seminar: Hassan Mansour

Reweighted algorithms for sparse signal recovery.   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 30-Oct-12

PIMS / AMI / Mechanical Engineering Seminar

On the mechanics and mathematics of bodies described by implicit constitutive equations   more››

University of Alberta

  • 29-Oct-12

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Jesse Wolfson

Strictifying Higher Principal Bundles   more››

University of British Columbia

  • 27-Oct-12