Past Events

The Testing Gravity 2023 (TG2023) conference is planned in person at SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, during January 18-21, 2023. TG2023 will be the 4th Testing Gravity conference hosted by SFU bringing together leading theorists and experts on various...

In this talk, we consider the gradient flow structure of the porous medium equations with nonnegative constant boundary conditions. We prove that weak solutions to the equations can be obtained by the variational steepest descent scheme by...

Take an Ising model with very low temperature. What is the largest p such that the Ising model dominates Bernoulli percolation with parameter p ? We will show that the answer to this question depends drastically on the geometry of the graph. We also...

I will introduce a natural geometric learning framework, the atomic cluster expansion (ACE), which focuses on linear and shallow models, and adds a new dimension to the design space of geometric deep learning. ACE is particularly well-suited for...

Malignant gliomas are highly invasive brain tumors. Recent attention has focused on their capacity for network-driven invasion, whereby mitotic events can be followed by the migration of nuclei along long thin cellular protrusions, termed tumour...

It is an open question of Baker whether the Dirichlet L-values at 1 with fixed modulus are linearly independent over the rational numbers. The best-known result is due to Baker, Birch and Wirsing, which affirms this when the modulus of the associated...

A nodal real algebraic curve in the affine plane is called expressive if its defining polynomial has the smallest number of critical points that is allowed by the topology of the set of real points of the curve. This notion can be viewed as a "global...

We discuss how to use spectral graph theory to count subgraphs of graphs where the subgraph counted is motivated by finite field versions of questions in geometric measure theory. One representative question is the following: Let E be a set in F_q^d...