Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Alan Perelson (Los Alamos)
October 21, 2010
University of British Columbia
I will provide an overview of recent modeling work on acute HIV infection stimulated by new experimental findings. I will discuss new deterministic models that incorporate a time-varying infectivity parameter. I will also discuss stochastic models of...
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Number Theory Seminar: Lior Silberman (UBC)
October 21, 2010
University of British Columbia
I will describe work with Dubi Kelmer on the first Laplace eigenvalue in towers of manifolds covered by real or complex hyperbolic space. All congruence quotients in a given dimension have a uniform spectral gap; we show how to deduce from this a...
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PIMS Distinguished Lecture Series: Joachim Cuntz
October 20, 2010
University of Victoria
We will first present the algebras A(K) associated with a number field K which were introduced and analyzed in joint work with X.Li. The computation of their K-theory is a challenging problem. It turns out to be determined by the multiplicative group...
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Topology Seminar: Pierre Guillot (Strasbourg/PIMS)
October 20, 2010
University of British Columbia
There is a general cohomology defined by Sweedler for co-commutative Hopf algebras, generalizing the usual cohomology of a group or a Lie algebra. Recently it was discovered that low-dimensional groups could be defined without the co-commutativity...
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SCAIM Seminar: Hui Huang (UBC)
October 19, 2010
University of British Columbia
We address the problem of prior matrix estimation for the solution of L1-regularized ill-posed inverse problems. Considering a Bayesian viewpoint, we show that such a matrix can be regarded as an influence matrix in a multivariate L1-Laplace density...
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DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Tai-Peng Tsai (UBC)
October 19, 2010
University of British Columbia
We prove the unique existence of solutions of the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in an exterior domain with small non-decaying boundary data, for all $t \in R$ or $t \in (0,\infty)$. In the case $t \in (0,\infty)$ it is coupled with a...
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Topology working seminar: José Manuel Gómez (UBC)
October 18, 2010
University of British Columbia
This is a working seminar on the homotopy theory of moduli spaces
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Dave Anderson (Washington)
October 18, 2010
University of British Columbia
Given a projective variety X of dimension d, a "flag" of subvarieties Y_i, and a big divisor D, Okounkov showed how to construct a convex body in R^d, and this construction has recently been developed further in work of Kaveh-Khovanskii and...
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Bellingham Algebraic Geometry Seminar
October 16, 2010
Western Washington University, Bellingham
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PIMS/WMAX Postdoctoral Colloquium: Johnson Jia (PIMS/UBC)
October 14, 2010
University of British Columbia
The Rallis inner product formula provides a precise relationship between the inner product of a theta lift and the special value of a $L$-function. We hope to give a flavor of the ingredients involved and a rough description of the recipe for cooking...