Past Events

PIMS- UBC is pleased to be hosting the inaugural PIMS celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12! The event will be held in a hybrid format. To attend the event in person at UBC, go to Earth Sciences Building (ESB) - 2012. Details of the event are...

It is known that the category of affine Lagrangian relations over a field F, of integers modulo a prime p (with p > 2) is isomorphic to the category of stabilizer quantum circuits for p-dits. Furthermore, it is known that electrical circuits...

Advances in Cryo-electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) have for the past few years revolutionized our understanding of biological 3D structures, illustrated by the Nobel Prize of Chemistry awarded in 2017 for the discovery of the technique, and the explosive...

The study of multivariate extremes is dominated by multivariate regular variation, although it is well known that this approach does not provide adequate distinction between random vectors whose components are not always simultaneously large. Various...

Abstract: TBC Read more about our PIMS PDS on our Medium feature here. This event is part of the Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium Series.

Paley graphs connect many branches of mathematics, notably combinatorics and number theory. Inspired by the Erdős-Ko-Rado (EKR) theorem for Paley graphs of square order (first proved by Blokhuis) and recent development of the study of EKR-type...

Cartesian Differential Categories are defined to introduce and study the notion of differential from calculus in a category theory point of view. In a Cartesian Differential Category, morphisms between objects can be « derived », and this...

I will give a very broad overview discussing various uses and generalizations of the shift operator (and its adjoint). In the classical case we consider the Hardy space of analytic functions on the complex disk with square summable Taylor...

TBC This event is part of the Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium Series.

Starting from just a sheet of paper, by folding, stacking, crumpling, sometimes tearing, we will explore a variety of phenomena, from magic tricks and geometry to elasticity and the traditional Japanese art of origami. Much of the show consists of...