Past Events
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Number Theory Seminar: Alexander Mondar
March 3, 2011
Simon Fraser University
AbstractMany arithmetic geometric results have an arithmetic dynamic analogue. For instance, Siegel's theorem that an elliptic curve has only finitely many integer points is analogous to the fact that any orbit under a rational function whose second...
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Mathematical Biology Seminar: Oleg Igoshin (Rice University)
March 3, 2011
University of British Columbia
Myxococcus xanthus is a model bacteria famous for its coordinated multicellular behavior resulting in formation of various dynamical patterns. Examples of these patterns include fruiting bodies - aggregates in which tens of thousands of bacteria self...
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Mathematical Biology Seminar: Oleg Igoshin (Dep't of Bioengineering, Rice University)
March 3, 2011
University of British Columbia
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DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Raphael Ponge (University of Tokyo)
March 1, 2011
University of British Columbia
Motivated by the analysis of the singularity of the Bergman kernel on strictly pseudoconvex complex domains, Fefferman launched in the late 70s the program of determining all local biholomorphic invariants of a strictly pseudoconvex complex domain...
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DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Leobardo Rosales (Rice University)
March 1, 2011
University of British Columbia
We explore the question of whether there are nontrivial solutions to the two-valued minimal surface (2MSE) equation defined over the punctured plane. The 2MSE is a non-uniformly elliptic PDE, degenerate at the origin, originally introduced by N...
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PIMS/SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Pavol Hell
March 1, 2011
Simon Fraser University
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Topology working seminar: Jose Manuel Gomez (UBC)
February 28, 2011
University of British Columbia
This talk is a continuation on cyclic homology and Hochschild homology.
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Malabika Pramanik (UBC)
February 28, 2011
University of British Columbia
The structure of the zero set of a multivariate polynomial is a topic of wide interest, in view of its ubiquity in problems of analysis, algebra, partial differential equations, probability and geometry. The study of such sets originated in the...
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SCAIM Seminar: Alexandro Veneziani
February 25, 2011
University of British Columbia
The development of new technologies for acquiring measures and images in order to investigate cardiovascular diseases raises new challenges in scientific computing. These data can be in fact merged with the numerical simulations for improving the...
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PIMS/WMAX Postdoctoral Colloquium: Tom Meyerovich (PIMS-UBC)
February 24, 2011
University of British Columbia
Entropy" is a key notion in the study in of dynamical systems. This quantity reflects the "uncertainty", or "randomness" of a system. Subshifts are topological dynamical systems whose elements are sequences over a given finite alphabet. A translation...