Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Alessio Figalli
March 23, 2023
Online
The classical obstacle problem consists of finding the equilibrium position of an elastic membrane whose boundary is held fixed and which is constrained to lie above a given obstacle. By classical results of Caffarelli, the free boundary is smooth...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Akina Kuperus
March 23, 2023
University of Victoria
A collection of families $(\F_{1}, \F_{2} , \cdots , \F_{k}) \in \mathcal{P}([n])^k$ is \emph{cross-Sperner} if there is no pair $i \not= j$ for which some $F_i \in \F_i$ is comparable to some $F_j \in \F_j$. Two natural measures of the `size' of...
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Alexandre Bailleul
March 22, 2023
University of Lethbridge
Chebyshev's bias is the surprising phenomenon that there is usually more primes of the form 4n+3 than of the form 4n+1 in initial intervals of the natural numbers. More generally, following work from Rubinstein and Sarnak, we know Chebyshev's bias...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Kana Ishimatsu
March 22, 2023
University of British Columbia
Left-right symmetry of the anatomy of vertebrate bodies is crucial for proper physiological function and requires active mechanisms throughout embryonic development. The somites, which give rise to the vertebrae and rib cage, appear as highly...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Sarai Hernandez Torres
March 22, 2023
University of British Columbia
Random interlacements is a Poissonian soup of doubly-infinite random walk trajectories on Z^d, with a parameter u > 0 controlling the intensity of the Poisson point process. In a natural way, the model defines a percolation on the edges of Z^d with...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Weihong Xu
March 21, 2023
University of British Columbia
Cominuscule flag varieties generalize Grassmannians to other Lie types. Schubert varieties in cominuscule flag varieties are indexed by posets of roots labeled long/short. These labeled posets generalize Young diagrams. In this talk, I will report on...
Scientific, Seminar
UVic Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Neha Bansal
March 21, 2023
University of Victoria
Reproductive value is the relative expected number of off-springs produced by an individual in its remaining lifetime. It is also an invariant function for population processes with birth and death rates independent of the time except in cases when...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Neha Bansal
March 21, 2023
University of Victoria
Reproductive value is the relative expected number of off-springs produced by an individual in its remaining lifetime. It is also an invariant function for population processes with birth and death rates independent of the time except in cases when...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology Seminar: Manak Singh
March 21, 2023
University of Regina
Topological K-theory is an assignment of algebraic data to a topological space. It is a homotopy invariant and satisfies the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms for a generalized cohomology theory. In this talk I give a rapid introduction to vector bundles...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC SCAIM Seminar: Felix J. Herrmann
March 21, 2023
University of British Columbia
I will give an overview on how techniques from neural (conditional) density estimation and surrogate modeling can be used to solve challenging problems in seismic imaging and monitoring of geological carbon storage. I will start by outlining how...