Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Martin Frankland
October 3, 2024
University of Regina
In this second part, we will look at more examples of cohomology rings. We will then focus on manifolds and discuss de Rham cohomology, orientations, Poincaré duality, and the intersection product.
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Jae-baek Lee
October 3, 2024
University of Victoria
A combinatorial object is said to be quasirandom if it exhibits certain properties that are typically seen in a truly random object of the same kind. It is known that a permutation is quasirandom if and only if the pattern density of each of the...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Mengru Lin
October 3, 2024
University of Victoria
A geometric graph $G$ is a graph $G$ whose vertices are drawn in the plane such that no three vertices are collinear, and each edge of G is a straight line segment. A geometric homomorphism from geometric graph $G$ to geometric graph $H$ is a...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry Seminar: Sean Douglas
October 2, 2024
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we establish a fractional chain rule in the context of weighted Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. This result notably extends the fractional chain rule to weighted Sobolev spaces with an integrability index less than one. Additionally, we...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Zachary Selk
October 2, 2024
University of British Columbia
The theta process is a stochastic process of number theoretical origin arising from a scaling limit of quadratic Weyl exponential sums. It shares many properties in common with the Brownian motion such as its Hölder continuity, covariance structure...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Probability and Dynamics Seminar: Peter Eichelsbacher
October 1, 2024
University of Victoria
In the talk exchangeability appears in two different meanings. In the first part, the determination of the phase diagram of the Curie-Weiss model relies on De Finetti’s Theorem. The Curie-Weiss distribution will be expressed as a random mixture of...
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Andrew Yang
October 1, 2024
PIMS Library - ESB 4133
A zero-free region of the Riemann zeta-function is a subset of the complex plane where the zeta-function is known to not vanish. In this talk we will discuss various computational and analytic techniques used to enlarge the zero-free region for the...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Denis Grebenkov
September 27, 2024
Simon Fraser University
In this overview talk, I will present the encounter-based approach to diffusive processes in Euclidean domains and highlight its fundamental relation to the Steklov spectral problem. So, the Steklov eigenfunctions turn out to be particularly useful...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Elina Robeva
September 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
The main task of causal discovery is to learn direct causal relationships among observed random variables. These relationships are usually depicted via a directed graph whose vertices are the variables of interest and whose edges represent direct...
Scientific, Colloquia
UAlberta-PIMS Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium: Ivan Angiono
September 27, 2024
University of Alberta
A good way to understand the structure of a finite group is through its representations. The family of representations of a group on a fixed field has several properties: it is closed by finite direct sums, by tensor products, it contains the dual...