Simon Fraser University

Each year, during late June or early July, we host a regional SFU-CMS-PIMS Math Camps for grade 9 and 10 students (and some keen grade 8 students who are familiar with grade 9 math). These camps, which are organized annually at several universities...

Come celebrate the contributions of women in mathematics, learn some cool mathematics, and connect with other members of the Math department! SFU’s Department of Mathematics EDI Advisory Group kindly invites you to join in festivities on May 12th...

This workshop is hosted by Simon Fraser University. It is supported by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the NSERC-EU project FoQaCiA. The goal of this meeting is to connect mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists...

Recently, Sherry et al. (2024) reconsidered the pioneering work of Dahlquist and Jeltsch (1979) on circle-contractivity for the study of neural networks. This theory can be used to analyse and improve the robustness of architectures that are devised...

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Shape analysis is a framework for treating complex data and obtain metrics on spaces of data. Examples are spaces of unparametrized curves, time-signals, surfaces and images. In this talk we discuss structure preservation and deep learning for...

We consider neural networks (NN) as discretizations of continuous dynamical systems. There are two relevant systems: the NN architecture on one side and the gradient flow for optimizing the parameters on the other. In both cases, stability properties...

The Simplex method for solving linear programs (LPs) is one of the most widely used LP solvers due to the fact that it runs very quickly in practice. However, despite its practical efficiency and decades of study, it remains unknown whether or not it...

The classical McKay correspondence shows that there is a bijection between irreducible representations of finite subgroups GG of S L ( 2 , C )SL(2,C) and the exceptional divisors of the minimal resolution of the singularity C 2 / GC2/G. This is a...

Distances between the roots of a fixed polynomial appear organically in many places in number theory. For any $f(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, let $\operatorname{sep}(f)$ denote the minimum distance between distinct roots of $f(x)$. Mahler initiated the...