Past Events

The Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar (PNGS) is a regional meeting for geometers of all kinds. It is held every fall and spring, and every other winter, rotating among the following participating institutions: * Oregon State University * Portland...

April 30, 2009 SFU Vancouver 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver This year's Changing the Culture will be a satellite conference of The Canadian Mathematics Education Forum (CMEF). Please check back for more information, or contact the conference...

The mandate of the Prairie Network for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (PNRMS) is to encourage and advance research in the mathematical sciences in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The primary objective of this meeting is to build research...

We introduce and discuss some new stochastic models of optimal portfolio selection with reduced impact of forecast errors. In particular, we found some new examples of optimal myopic strategies, including some discrete time models with serial...

Speaker: Daniel Dugger (U.Oregon) Title: Motivic stable homotopy groups Speaker: Chad Giusti (U.Oregon) Title: Unstable Vassiliev theory Speaker: Veronique Godin (U.Calgary) Title: Relative invariant of string topology Speaker: Jose Maria Cantarero...

In this talk, designed for a broad mathematical audience, we will describe what is known (and unknown) about the classification of smooth 4-manifolds. In particular we will uncover a new mechanism that makes progress towards the conjecture that every...

In addition to frequent single-nucleotide mutations, mammalian and many other genomes undergo rare and dramatic changes called genome rearrangements. These include inversions, fissions, fusions, and translocations. Although analysis of genome...