Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Wieslawa Niziol: p-adic etale cohomology of p-adic symmetric spaces, Lecture 3
May 17, 2017
University of British Columbia
We will present different ways to compute the p-adi etale cohomology of layers of the Drinfeld tower, and give applications to the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. (Lecture 3 of 4)
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Jared Weinstein: Period maps in p-adic geometry, Lecture 2
May 16, 2017
University of British Columbia
On a complex variety, you can integrate a differential form over a cycle to get a period. For instance, an elliptic curve has two periods, whose quotient gives an element of the upper half plane. There is a family of concepts (Hodge decomposition...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Pierre Colmez: p-adic etale cohomology of p-adic symmetric spaces, Lecture 2
May 16, 2017
University of British Columbia
We will present different ways to compute the p-adi etale cohomology of layers of the Drinfeld tower, and give applications to the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. (Lecture 2 of 4)
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS- SFU Distinguished Visitor: Claire Boyer
May 16, 2017
Simon Fraser University
The goal of these lectures is to present two problems arising in various applications when data is missing: compressed sensing and matrix completion. Both consist in reconstructing a very high-dimensional object from a few information. This is not...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Jared Weinstein: Period maps in p-adic geometry, Lecture 1
May 15, 2017
University of British Columbia
On a complex variety, you can integrate a differential form over a cycle to get a period. For instance, an elliptic curve has two periods, whose quotient gives an element of the upper half plane. There is a family of concepts (Hodge decomposition...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Pierre Colmez: p-adic etale cohomology of p-adic symmetric spaces, lecture 1
May 15, 2017
University of British Columbia
We will present different ways to compute the p-adi etale cohomology of layers of the Drinfeld tower, and give applications to the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. (Lecture 1 of 4)
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Focus Period on Representations in Arithmetic
May 15–19, 2017
University of British Columbia
This is the final segment of the PIMS Focus Group on Representations in Arithmetic. This week will focus on a series of lectures on p-adic Geometry related to Scholze’s work. Speakers include: Pierre Colmez, Wiesia Niziol, Kiran Kedlaya, Jared...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Prescribing the curvature of hyperbolic convex bodies: Philippe Castillon
May 12, 2017
University of British Columbia
The Gauss curvature of a convex body can be seen as a measure on the unit sphere (with some properties). For such a measure \mu , Alexandrov problem consists in proving the existence of a convex body whose curvature measure is \mu . In the Euclidean...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation
May 9, 2017
University of Calgary
Machine learning is a powerful computer science technique that can derive knowledge from big data and make predictions/decisions. Since nanometer VLSI design and manufacturing have extremely high complexity and gigantic data, there is great...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Cédric Villani
May 5, 2017
University of British Columbia
It has been more than hundred years since the death of Henri Poincaré, the world’s greatest mathematician (as we like to say in France, and abroad as well). From the onset, Poincaré’s work and writings, and himself as a universalist and continue to...