Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Statistical analysis
November 13, 2008
University of British Columbia
Place: WMAX 110, West Mall, UBC Semi-competing risks data frequently arise in clinical and observational studies. In these cases, the subject can experience both non-terminal and terminal events where the terminal event (e.g., death) censors the non...
Scientific, Seminar
The Tenth Northwest Probability Seminar
November 8, 2008
University of Washington
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-15
November 4, 2008
University of British Columbia
Educational
Math Mania at Lochside Elementary School
October 30–31, 2008
None
"Fun" methods to teach math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) by games and art will be demonstrated. Lots of hands-on activities! Exciting Geometrical Models from Straws and Paper Mathematical Puzzles The Guessing Game A Sorting...
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-14
October 28, 2008
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Postdoc Day
October 25, 2008
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
2008-09 IAM-PIMS-MITACS Distinguished Colloquium Series - 02
October 20, 2008
University of British Columbia
Fluids with suspended microstructure – complex fluids – are common in micro- and biofluidics and can have fascinating dynamical behaviors. I will overview modeling and simulation studies of transport and mixing in complex fluids. These studies will...
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar-13
October 14, 2008
University of British Columbia
Donaldson introduced a metric and a geometric structure on the space of volume forms on any compact Rimannian manifold. The geodesic equation is a degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equation. Also this equation is relevant to many interesting...
Scientific, Seminar
AMS 2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
October 4–5, 2008
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS Special Speaker-Index Theory from a Non-Commutative Point of View
October 2, 2008
University of Victoria