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Life is a nonequilibrium phenomenon where nonlocal processes play a prominent and increasingly important role. Nonlocal models have emerged as a robust mathematical framework for capturing interactions across spatial and temporal scales in the life...

Sharon and Joerg are members of the Boeing Applied Mathematics organization. They partner with business units to develop applied math solutions and tools that help Boeing reduce costs, improve products and operations. In this presentation, Sharon and...

Since defending my PhD in the UBC Mathematics Department in 2023, I have worked as a sessional instructor both at UBC and at Corpus Christi College, which is one of UBC’s affiliate colleges, located at the northeast corner of campus. At UBC, I taught...

The van Eeden seminar is a yearly event in which graduate students vote for their favorite statisticians. The winner is contacted by the organizing committee and invited to give a talk in the department’s seminar. The speaker spends one or two days...

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...

Given a matching M of a hypercube, does there exist a Hamiltonian cycle that contains every edge of M? This problem was posed by Ruskey and Savage in 1993, and remains open. If M is a perfect matching a Hamiltonian cycle does exist, as shown by Fink...

Locally gentle algebras are a class of infinite-dimensional, non-connected algebras which have nice combinatorial interpretation in terms of quivers with relations. These relations ensure that each arrow is contained in a unique maximal path. In this...

Let X be an isotropic unimodal L\'{e}vy jump process on ℝ d . We develop probabilistic methods which in many cases allow us to determine whether X satisfies the elliptic Harnack inequality (EHI), by looking only at the jump kernel of X , and its...

Viral infections are social processes. Viral replication requires shared gene products that can be used by multiple viral genomes within the same cell, and hence act as public goods. This gives rise to viral cheats, a type of molecular parasite...

In this talk, I will be discussing joint work with Nathaniel Butler, Gourab Ray and Yinon Spinka on the behavior of uniformly chosen integer valued 1-lipschitz functions on regular trees, with prescribed boundary conditions on the nth generation...