Past Events

In recent years, multi-scale modeling and computation have been widely used in the study of complex problems arising from science and engineering. The first lecture begins with an introduction of homogenization and main idea of multi-scale methods...

A stochastic system of particles is considered in which the sizes of the particles increase by successive binary mergers with the constraint that each coagulation event involves a particle with minimal size. Convergence of a suitably renormalised...

The McGill Spring School in Graph Theory is organized by Bruce Reed and will take place at McGill University in Montreal from May 2nd to 29th, 2010. The school will consist of (i) a 20-lecture course given by Bruce Reed on structural results obtained...

The Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium traces its origins back to the Utah-UCLA Algebraic Geometry Seminar started in 1989 by H. Clemens, D. Gieseker, M. Green, J. Kollár, R. Lazarsfeld, Z. Ran and M.-C. Chang. Later on, it became the Utah-UCLA...

Collectively, the number theorists taken from the principal mathematics departments in Alberta -- at the universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge -- form a very strong group, with researchers being recognized not just in Canada, but globally...

Four ordered points on the projective line, up to projective equivalence, are classified by the cross ratio, a notion introduced by Cayley. This theory can be extended to more points, leading to one of the first important examples of an invariant...

Instructors will spend a day or two sharing information and current events and developments in the mathematical sciences in Alberta colleges and universities, and hear research presentations and pedagogical talks. The participants are new and...

This will be a mostly expository talk on the new 3-manifold invariant, Heegaard-Floer homology, developed in the last decade in a series of remarkable papers by Ozsvath and Szabo. Emphasis will be on the remarkable applications of the theory.

We classify bifurcations of the asymmetric states from a family of symmetric states in the focusing (attractive) Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a symmetric double-well potential. Depending on the shape of the potential, both supercritical and...