Past Events
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UBC Probability Seminar: Mathav Murugan
November 8, 2023
University of British Columbia
I report recent progress on heat kernel estimates for reflected diffusion on uniform domains where the underlying space admits sub-Gaussian heat kernel bounds. A key novelty of our work is the use of an extension operator that extends functions from...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Francis Bischoff
November 8, 2023
University of Regina
In this seminar, we have seen that problems in deformation theory are often controlled by differential graded Lie algebras (dgla). For example, in Martin's talk, we saw how the deformations of an associative algebra are controlled by a dgla structure...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Ian Wong
November 8, 2023
University of British Columbia
Animal tissues exhibit complex spatial architectures that emerge from cell-cell interactions. For instance, transitions between individual cells and multicellular groups occur widely in embryonic development, wound healing, and tumor progression...
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UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Kristaps Balodis
November 8, 2023
University of Calgary
Given two isomorphic groups G and H, one may identify representations of H with representations of G along some fixed isomorphism from G to H. However, this process of identifying representations depends crucially on the isomorphism of groups one...
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The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Anastassiya Semenova
November 8, 2023
Online
The study of ocean waves, particularly surface waves, is crucial for predicting and preparing for natural disasters such as tsunamis. Although ocean waves naturally occur in three dimensions, there are instances when they can be analyzed within a two...
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UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Anthony Lazzeroni
November 7, 2023
University of British Columbia
We introduce a new P basis for the Hopf algebra of quasisymmetric functions that refine the symmetric powersum basis. Its expansion in quasisymmetric monomial functions is given by fillings of matrices. This basis has a shuffle product, a...
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Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
November 7, 2023
University of Lethbridge
Historically, the notion of Pólya fields dates back to some works of George Pólya and Alexander Ostrowski, in 1919, on entire functions with integer values at integers; a number field $K$ with ring of integers $\mathcal{O}_K$ is called a Pólya field...
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SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Yifan Jing
November 7, 2023
Simon Fraser University
A central problem in additive combinatorics is to obtain a good lower bound for the size of the product set AB of two subsets A, B of a group G. In this talk, we will be focusing on the setting when G is a locally compact group, where G has a natural...
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UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Misha Basok
November 7, 2023
University of Victoria
In this talk I will be speaking about the dimer model sampled on a general Riemann surface. Dimer model on a graph consists of sampling a random perfect matching with the probability proportional to the product of edge weights. In the case when the...
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UWashington Distinguished Seminar in Optimization and Data: Lin Xiao
November 6, 2023
University of Washington
We consider the problem of minimizing the average of a large number of smooth but possibly non-convex functions. For machine learning applications, the loss functions are mostly non-negative and thus can be written as the composition of the square...