Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: The local projective plane, a fractal-like curve, and Gamma_1(3)
November 23, 2009
University of British Columbia
I will report on joint work with E. Macri on the space of stability conditions for the derived category of the total space of the canonical bundle on the projective plane. It is a 3–dimensional manifold, with many chamber decompositions coming from...
Scientific, Conference
Joint UBC/SFU Graduate Student Workshop
November 22, 2009
Simon Fraser University
Educational
First Nations Math Education
November 22–27, 2009
Banff, Alberta
Scientific, Conference
Combinatorial Potlatch 2009
November 21, 2009
Simon Fraser University
The Combinatorial Potlatch is an irregularly scheduled, floating, one-day conference. It has been held for many years at various locations around Puget Sound and southern British Columbia, and is an opportunity for combinatorialists in the region to...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS-CSC Distinguished Speaker Series: Viscometry of bulk materials and atomic structures
November 20, 2009
Simon Fraser University
Perhaps the most important deformations in solid mechanics are those that represent the bending, twisting and extension of beams. The most important flows in fluid mechanics are viscometric flows. In both cases these are the motions that, when...
Scientific, Seminar
Algebra Topology Seminar: Generalized Morse Theory for Maps to Two Dimensional Manifolds: PL-immersions of Polygons and Protein
November 18, 2009
University of British Columbia
Motivated by basic questions from robotics and molecular biology, we consider certain configuration spaces, and some associated maps to two dimensional Euclidian space. We are able to understand the singular sets for a natural subset of these maps...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Cluster expansions and fixed points
November 18, 2009
University of British Columbia
Cluster expansions give convergent expressions for measures on infinite dimensional spaces, such as those that occur in statistical mechanics. One approach to these convergence questions is via fixed points for infinite dimensional increasing...
Scientific, Seminar
General Hardy inequalities with improvements and applications
November 18, 2009
University of British Columbia
We derive a general Hardy inequality and show most Hardy inequalities can be seen as special cases of this inequality. In addition we characterize the improvements of this inequality and (time permitting) we show an application of this inequality to...
Scientific, Seminar
Bijective counting of one-face maps on surfaces
November 18, 2009
University of British Columbia
A one-face map is a graph embedded in a compact surface, in such a way that its complement is a topological disk. Dually, it can be viewed as a polygon of even size, in which edges have been pasted pairwise to create a surface. These objects have...
Scientific, Seminar
Stable and efficient evaluation of periodized Green's functions for the Helmholtz equation at high frequencies
November 17, 2009
University of British Columbia
We present a new algorithm for the evaluation of the periodized Green's function for Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions. A variety of classical algorithms (based on spatial and spectral representations, Ewald transformation, etc.) have...