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Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs), Variational Autoencoders and Normalizing Flows have been very successful in the unsupervised learning task of generating samples from a high-dimensional probability distribution. However...

The PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum is an annual Forum to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Mathematics and related areas with their job searches. The session is divided in two parts: short presentations from our panel followed by a...

Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs), Variational Autoencoders and Normalizing Flows have been very successful in the unsupervised learning task of generating samples from a high-dimensional probability distribution. However...

A directed graph H consists of a set V(H) of vertices together with a subset A(H) of V(H)×V(H) which are called arcs. A hamiltonian dipath in a digraph is a dipath that visits each vertex exactly once. The Cartesian product H 1◻H 2 of two digraphs H...

I will present new, non-asymptotic bounds on the heights of random combinatorial trees and conditioned Bienaymé trees, as well as stochastic inequalities relating the heights of combinatorial trees with different degree sequences. The tool for most...

Cartesian differential categories (CDC) come equipped with a differential combinator, which provides a categorical axiomatization of the directional derivative from multivariable calculus, and so produces a derivative for every map. An important...

Recursive distributional equations (RDEs) are ubiquitous in probability. For example, the standard Gaussian distribution can be characterized as the unique fixed point of the following RDE $$ X = (X_1 + X_2)/\sqrt(2), $$ among the class of centered...

Increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math. Join us for a conversation with Julie Angus, Open Ocean Robotics, Mina Hoorfar, UVic Engineering and Computer Science, Sue Paish, Canada’s Digital Technology...

In this talk, we introduce the notions of matching matrices in groups and vector spaces, which lead to some necessary conditions for existence of acyclic matching in abelian groups and its linear analogue. We also discuss the linear local matching...

Synthetic biology offers bottom-up engineering strategies that intends to understand complex systems via design-build-test cycles. In development, gene regulatory networks emerge into collective cellular behaviors with multicellular forms and...