Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Information Theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Predicting Jupiter's Red Spot
February 12, 2008
University of Victoria
Information Theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Predicting Jupiter's Red Spot. Feb 12, 2008 3:00pm-4:00pm, CORNETT B111 Galileo Journey to Jupiter This lecture blends ideas from probability theory, PDE’s, numerical analysis and physical reasoning in...
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical analysis of FRAP data reveals a differential response of histone H1 variants to the anticancer drug TSA
February 11, 2008
University of Alberta
Scientific, Seminar
2008 PIMS-CSC Seminar - 01
February 8, 2008
Simon Fraser University
The impact of waves, both resolved and parameterized, on the general circulation of the atmosphere is essential to the upward extension of atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) into the stratosphere and mesosphere. Such efforts have lead to a...
Scientific, Seminar
Manin conjectures for K3 surfaces
February 7, 2008
Simon Fraser University
Scientific, Seminar
An extension to the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem
February 7, 2008
Simon Fraser University
Scientific, Seminar
Analysis of immune cell chemotaxis and signal integration
February 7, 2008
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
2008 DG-MP-PDE Seminar - 04
February 7, 2008
University of British Columbia
Varchenko described how one can obtain sharp estimates for scalar oscillatory integrals when the Newton polyhedron of the phase satisfies a certain nondegeneracy condition. These estimates can be described in a nice geometric way in terms of this...
Scientific, Seminar
Data cloning: easy maximum likelihood estimation for complex ecological models using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
February 4, 2008
University of Alberta
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical modelling of intracellular polarization
February 1, 2008
University of Alberta
Scientific, Seminar
When optimization becomes irrelevant: time-inconsistency and its consequences
January 31, 2008
University of Victoria