Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Canon Sun
April 3, 2024
Online
The wavefunction of a particle describes everything that could be known about a quantum mechanical system. One of the key insights over the past few decades is that a wavefunction, despite its name, is not an ordinary function, but should be regarded...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Rachel Greenfeld
April 2, 2024
University of British Columbia
A set S in the Euclidean plane is an integer distance set if the distance between any pair of its points is an integer. Interestingly, all the so-far-known integer distance sets have all but up to four of their points on a single line or circle. And...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Yu-Ting Chen
April 2, 2024
University of Victoria
Feynman’s path integral expresses the probability amplitude of a quantum mechanical system as a “sum of trajectories” of the classical system. Since this integral has not been given a satisfactory mathematical meaning, a widely accepted treatment is...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Pijush Pratim Sarmah
March 28, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Every curve has an abelian variety associated to it, called the Jacobian. Poincaré's total reducibility theorem states that any abelian variety is isogenuous to a product of simple abelian varieties. We are interested to know this decomposition for...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Lina Simbaqueba
March 28, 2024
University of Victoria
Given two graphs H and G, the homomorphism density t(H,G) represents the likelihood that a random mapping from V(H) to V(G) is a homomorphism. Sidorenko Conjecture states that for any bipartite graph H, t(H,G) is greater or equal to t(K_2,G)^{e(H)}...
Scientific, Seminar
POSTPONED: Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Shirin Alimirzaei
March 27, 2024
University of Lethbridge
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Manak Singh
March 27, 2024
University of Regina
The Bar and Cobar functors pair up to form an adjunction between the category of dg-algebras and dg-coalgebras. This adjunction can be used as a tool to provide a quasi-free resolution for any dg-algebra. We work out such a resolution for the case of...
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Eugene Bilokopytov
March 27, 2024
Online
Order convergence on a partially ordered set is a topological-like structure induced by the order, which usually fails to be an "actual" topology. However, on Boolean algebras and vector lattices this convergence satisfies the definition of a so...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Foster Tom
March 26, 2024
Online
We prove a new signed elementary symmetric function expansion of the chromatic quasisymmetric function of any natural unit interval graph. We then use sign-reversing involutions to prove new combinatorial formulas for melting lollipops and for K...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Agnieszka Zelerowicz
March 26, 2024
University of Victoria
The Lorentz gas was originally introduced as a model for the movement of electrons in metals. It consists of a massless point particle (electron) moving through Euclidean space bouncing off a given set of scatterers $\mathcal{S}$ (atoms of the metal)...