Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Misha Chernobai
November 23, 2023
University of British Columbia
We investigate the weak solvability and properties of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem for a scalar elliptic equation Δu+b(α)⋅∇u=f in a bounded domain Ω⊂ℝ2containing the origin, where f∈W−1q(Ω) with q>2 and b(α):=b−αx|x|2 , b is a divergence...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Ursula Whitcher
November 23, 2023
Simon Fraser University
Adinkras are decorated graphs that encapsulate information about conjectural relationships between fundamental particles in physics. If we color the edges of an Adinkra with a rainbow of shades in a specific order, we obtain a special curve that we...
Scientific, Colloquia
Prairie Mathematics Colloquium: Raphaël Clouâtre
November 23, 2023
University of Regina
Let B be a normed space and let A be a subspace. When does a continuous linear functional on A admit a unique norm-preserving extension to B? If A and B are C*-algebras and the functional is a so-called pure state, this question was at the heart of a...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Shubhrajit Bhattacharya
November 23, 2023
University of British Columbia
Arithmetic Statistics is an emerging subbranch of Number Theory where we count arithmetic objects when bounded by some quantitative invariant, like height. One example is counting polynomials with integer coefficients having a fixed Galois group...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Ethan Williams
November 23, 2023
University of Victoria
Eternal domination is a graph game where mobile guards are placed on vertices and then moved in order to defend against sequences of attacks. If only one guard is allowed to move in response to an attack, then it has been shown that there is no...
Scientific, Seminar
USask PIMS Geometry and Physics (GAP) Seminar: Casey Blacker
November 22, 2023
University of Saskatchewan
A symplectic Hamiltonian manifold consists of a Lie group action on a symplectic manifold, together with the additional structure of a moment map, which encodes the group action in terms of the assignment of Hamiltonian vector fields. In special...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Yucheng Liu
November 22, 2023
University of British Columbia
We give conditions on a real-valued function F on ℤd, for d>2, which ensure that the solution G to the convolution equation (F∗G)(x)=δ0,x has Gaussian decay |x|−(d−2) for large |x|. Precursors of our results were obtained by Hara in the 2000s, using...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Martin Frankland
November 22, 2023
University of Regina
So far, we learned that a deformation problem is controlled by a DG Lie algebra, and that solutions to the deformation problem correspond to Maurer-Cartan (MC) elements. However, different MC elements may yield equivalent deformations! The DG Lie...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Konstantinos Mamis
November 22, 2023
University of British Columbia
The questions of how healthy colonic crypts maintain their size under the rapid cell turnover in intestinal epithelium, and how homeostasis is disrupted by driver mutations, are central to understanding colorectal tumorigenesis. We propose a three...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Robin Cockett
November 22, 2023
University of Calgary
Michael Drazin introduced the idea of a “pseudoinverse” for rings and semigroups in 1961. These inverses categorically are rather special as (like ordinary inverses) they are preserved by all functors when they exist. A category is Drazin when all...