Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: How should maximal orders move?
March 15, 2010
University of British Columbia
I will discuss joint work in progress with Rajesh Kulkarni on the moduli of maximal orders on surfaces. In contrast to the "classical" case of Azumaya algebras, ramified maximal orders have several potentially interesting moduli spaces. I will...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS/AMI Seminar: Stable multi-layer flows at large Re
March 11, 2010
University of Alberta
Parallel multi-layer flow configurations occur in transport, co-extrusion and coating applications. In the industrial setting throughput (i.e. flow rate) is often limited by the onset of interfacial instabilities. Here we focus on a core annular flow...
Scientific, Seminar
The first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, conformal geometry, and minimal surfaces
March 10, 2010
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Mathematical Biology Seminar: Using Mathematical Models to Quantify Molecular Adaptation in Protein Production Costs
March 9, 2010
University of British Columbia
TBA
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Categorical resolution of singularities
March 8, 2010
University of British Columbia
I will introduce the notion of categorical resolution of singularities which is based on the concept of a smooth DG algebra. Then I will compare this notion with the traditional resolution in algebraic geometry and give some examples.
Scientific, Seminar
WENTS Seminar: On the correlation of shifted values of the Riemann zeta function
March 5, 2010
University of Calgary
In 2007, assuming the Riemann Hypothesis (RH), Soundararajan \cite{Moment} proved that the 2k-th moments of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line is bounded by T(log T)^{k^2 + epsilon} for every k positive real number and every epsilon > 0...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS/AMI Seminar: Persistence and spread in heterogeneous landscapes
March 5, 2010
University of Alberta
Natural landscapes are often not homogeneous but show spatial variation in environmental conditions. Natural and human disturbances result in additional landscape fragmentation and heterogeneity. In this talk, I will consider (a) conditions under...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS/WMAX Postdoctoral Colloquium: Cohomology of Toroidal Orbifolds
March 4, 2010
University of British Columbia
In this talk we outline the main ideas that come upon the computation of quotients of tori by actions of Z/p induced by linear representations of Z/p. These are called toroidal orbifolds. The talk will be aimed to a general audience. This is joint...
Scientific, Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: p-adic differential operators on automorphic forms and applications
March 4, 2010
University of British Columbia
At certain special points, the values of the Riemann zeta function and many other L-functions are algebraic, up to a well-determined transcendental factor. G. Shimura, H. Maass, and M. Harris extensively studied a class of differential operators on...
Scientific, Seminar
Number Theory Seminar: Computing conjectural integers to extreme precision
March 4, 2010
University of British Columbia
According to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group can be expressed as the ratio of several invariants of the curve. However, this ratio involves two numbers which are expected to be irrational; namely $L^{...