Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Virgelot Virgile
September 14, 2023
University of Victoria
In the eternal eviction game, a set of guards placed on the vertices of (a dominating set of) a graph G must move to defend the graph against attacks on those of its vertices that contain guards, while maintaining a dominating set of G. The eternal...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Tyler Helmuth
September 13, 2023
University of British Columbia
Random permutations show up in a variety of areas inmathematics and its applications. In connection with physical applications (e.g., the lambda transition for superfluid helium), there is an interest in random spatial permutations -- that is, laws...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Fanze Kong
September 13, 2023
University of British Columbia
We analyze the existence, linear stability, and slow dynamics of localized 1D spike patterns for a Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis that includes the effect of logistic growth of the cellular population. Our analysis of localized patterns for this...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Francis Bischoff
September 13, 2023
University of Regina
The fundamental principle of derived deformation theory is that a formal “space” (i.e. a formal moduli problem) can be encoded by a differential graded Lie algebra. The plan for our learning seminar this term will be to unpack and understand this...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Mohamar Rios Flores
September 13, 2023
University of Calgary
In 1973, C. I. Lewis published a landmark text developing a theory of counterfactual logics. The primary goal of the text was in providing a logical framework where one could reason about sentences of the form: “if P were true, then Q would be true”...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Joseph Hyde
September 12, 2023
University of Victoria
For graphs $G, H_1,\dots,H_r$, write $G \to (H_1, \ldots, H_r)$ to denote the property that whenever we $r$-colour the edges of $G$, there is a monochromatic copy of $H_i$ in colour $i$ for some $i \in \{1,\dots,r\}$. Mousset, Nenadov and Samotij...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry: Sheldon Newhouse
September 11, 2023
University of British Columbia
The modern subject of Dynamical Systems concerns the study of the orbit structure of Semi-Group actions on various spaces. Until the latter part of the 19th century, this study was primarily restricted to the kinematics of rigid motions and the...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Florian Schwarz
September 6, 2023
University of Calgary
Vector bundles and principal bundles are important objects in differential geometry. Vector bundles over a manifold M are manifolds that are locally isomorphic to the Cartesian product M times V for some vector space V, while principal bundles over M...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Sacha Ikonicoff
August 16, 2023
University of Calgary
Quillen-Barr-Beck (co)homology is a theory which studies the objects of a category where we can make sense of such notions as “modules” and “derivations”. More precisely, in his thesis, Beck defined a general notion of modules and derivations in a...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Jiakun Liu
August 8, 2023
Hybrid
In this talk, we introduce some recent regularity results of free boundary in optimal transportation. Particularly for higher order regularity, when densities are Hölder continuous and domains are C^2, uniformly convex, we obtain the free boundary is...