Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Kenny Moore
March 12, 2024
University of British Columbia
A conjecture of Erdős, Graham, Montgomery, Rothschild, Spencer and Straus states that, with the exception of equilateral triangles, any two-coloring of the plane will have a monochromatic congruent copy of every three-point configuration. In this...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry: Alan Chang
March 11, 2024
University of British Columbia
Davies's efficient covering theorem states that we can cover any measurable set in the plane by lines without increasing the total measure. This result has a dual formulation, known as Falconer's digital sundial theorem, which states that we can...
Scientific, Seminar
CANCELLED: L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Sneha Chaubey
March 11, 2024
University of Lethbridge
The topic on the distribution of sequences saw its light with the seminal paper of Weyl. While the classical notion of equidistribution modulo one addresses the “global” behaviour of the fractional parts of a sequence, quantities such as k-point...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Siting Liu
March 8, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Mean-field game (MFG) systems provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of multi-agent systems with diverse applications. However, unknown parameters pose challenges. In this work, we tackle an inverse problem, recovering MFG...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: David Spivak
March 8, 2024
University of Calgary
The category of polynomial functors in one variable and natural transformations between them is incredibly rich, e.g. it has infinitely many monoidal closed structures, including cartesian closure. Its substitution comonoids are categories and the...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Leonardo de Lima
March 8, 2024
Online
In 1986, Wilf posed the following question ``Which graphs have eigenvectors with entries solely -1 and +1?''. Stevanovic (2016) showed that the problem of finding such graphs is NP-Hard. Caputo, Khames, and Knippel (2019) described all graphs whose...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Michael Bennett
March 7, 2024
University of British Columbia
If A and B are two geometric progressions, we characterize all 3-term arithmetic progressions in the sumset A+B. Somewhat surprisingly, while mostly elementary, this appears to require quite deep machinery from Diophantine Approximation.
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Emily Heath
March 7, 2024
University of Victoria
Given graphs $G$ and $H$ and a positive integer $q$, an $(H,q)$-coloring of $G$ is an edge-coloring in which each copy of $H$ receives at least $q$ colors. Erdős and Shelah raised the question of determining the minimum number of colors, $f(G,H,q)$...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Mathematics of Computation, Application and Data ("MOCAD") Seminar: Sam Stechmann
March 6, 2024
Simon Fraser University
In the past decade, (artificial) neural networks and machine learning tools have surfaced as game changing technologies across numerous fields, resolving an array of challenging problems. Even for the numerical solution of partial differential...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Matjaž Konvalinka
March 6, 2024
University of Washington
Alternating sign matrices (ASMs) were introduced by Robbins and Rumsey in the early 1980s. Together with Mills they conjectured an enumerative formula for the number of ASMs of size n×n, which was proved independently by Zeilberger and Kuperberg...