Past Events

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...

Invited Minisymposia: IM1: Descriptive combinatorics ( Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA and Felix Weilacher, UC Berkeley) IM2: Pursuit-evasion games on graphs ( Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University) IM3: How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting (...

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

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...

Led by our Education Coordinator, Jane Butterfield, and a team of enthusiastic volunteers, we'll be offering visitors a fun and interactive glimpse into the Math Mania program we normally bring to local elementary schools. Join us and experience the...

Science Rendezvous is a FREE festival that takes science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) research and innovation out of the lab and onto the street. Departments and units from the Faculty of Science at UBC will be participating at...

The Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar is sponsored by the following participating institutions: Lewis and Clark College, Oregon State University, Pacific University, Portland State University, Seattle University, University of British Columbia...

In this talk we discuss two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow, including...

In this talk, we will discuss how Ricci flow smoothing can be used to produce expanding Ricci solitons coming out of a metric cone, when the curvature is non-negative. We will discuss how its relation to problem in Hamilton-Lott pinching conjecture...

Let 𝔽_q be a finite field, and let ℙ²(𝔽_q) denote the projective plane over 𝔽_q. A subset B ⊆ ℙ²(𝔽_q) is called a blocking set if it intersects every line defined over 𝔽_q. Given an algebraic plane curve C in ℙ², under what...