Past Events

In recent months, PIMS has been actively engaging in conversations on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Following the Panel on Women in STEM held in May, this next event looks at ways in which effective allyship can build a better and stronger...

Abstract: The problem of maximizing nonnegative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade, and a wide range of efficient approximation algorithms have been developed for this problem...

Abstract: The Green's functions of a graph are the pseudo inverses of the Laplacians and therefore are useful for solving many types of Laplace equations in discrete settings.In this talk, we will give combinatorial interpretations of Green's...

Entropic optimal transport has received a lot of attention in recent years and has become a popular framework for computational optimal transport thanks to the Sinkhorn scaling algorithm. In this talk, I will discuss the multi-marginal case which...

The ninth annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) will take place on Saturday, June 5th, 2021, the day before the Statistical Society of Canada 2021 Annual Meeting opens. Organized by students, for students, this conference is all about...

The COVID-19 pandemic has passed its initial peak in most countries in the world, making it ripe to assess whether the basic reproduction number (R0) is different across countries and what demographic, social, and environmental factors other than...

Abstract: Two Boolean functions from $\Bbb F_2^n$ to $\Bbb F_2$ are called (affine) equivalent if one can be obtained from the other through an invertible affine transformation of the variables followed by an addition of an affine function. Most...

The 2021 Connecting Women in Mathematics Across Canada (CWiMAC) workshop will be held online on Wednesday, June 2 and Thursday, June 3, 2021, preceding the 75th+1 Anniversary Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society. CWiMAC workshops are...

The crux of a card trick performed with a deck of cards usually depends on understanding how shuffles of the deck change the order of the cards. By understanding which permutations are possible, one knows if a given card may be brought into a...

The Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting (WCLAM) will be hosted by Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, May 29-30, 2021 (dates are tentative due to evolving COVID-19 situation). WCLAM 2021 will be the 15th in a series of biennial meetings that...