Past Events

In celebration of Maryam Mirzakhani (whose birthday is on May 12), this event will consist of a reception, four short talks on 'Women of the Mathematical Sciences' by faculty members from the University of British Columbia, and a panel Q&A session...

The Consulate General of France, in Vancouver, together with PIMS are pleased to host French Mathematician Etienne Ghys during his Vancouver Tour, May 2-3 2019. Étienne Ghys is a French mathematician. His scientific contributions deal with the...

Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice, and we often rely on regression models to make inference. A long-standing problem with such regression analyses is the lack of effective diagnostic tools for validating model...

Speaker Abstract : Let X be a Calabi-Yau variety of dimension d. We will confine ourselves to Calabi-Yauvarieties of small dimensions, e.g., d 3. Dimension one Calabi–Yaus are elliptic curves, those of dimension two are K3 surfaces, and dimension...

Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1647), a patron and friend of Galileo Galilei, believed he had witnessed the creation of something out of nothing when he established mathematically that zero equals one. He thereby thought that he had proved the existence...

In several imaging modalities the measured data can be interpreted as the modulus of the Fourier transform of a function describing the unknown object. To reconstruct this object one needs to “recover” the un-measured phase of the Fourier transform...

We approach the embedding space of knots by examining configurations of finite subsets of S^1 and R^3. In the case of configurations of two point subsets, one can obtain the classic invariant called the linking number. Such a procedure can be...

Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods require that we observe all confounders, variables that correlate to both the causal variables (the treatment) and the effect of those...

We approach manifold topology by examining configurations of finite subsets of manifolds. The homotopy types of such configurations organize as an ∞-category, the construction of which makes use of stratified spaces and exit-path ∞-categories thereof...

Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating condition causing highly disruptive motor complications. Although this condition has long been recognized and treated medically, many aspects of the disease and its treatment are not well understood. In fact...