Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
2009 PIMS-CSC Seminar - 06
March 20, 2009
Simon Fraser University
I will give a transverse introduction to how Boundary Integral techniques (or their numerical version, the Boundary Element Method) have been and are being used for scattering problems. While in the beginning the field of boundary integral equations...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Topology Seminar - 08
March 19, 2009
University of British Columbia
Khovanov homology gives rise to a simple invariant of knots and links taking values in the positive integers. Referred to as the width of a link, this invariant is a measurement of the homology's support. In general this quantity is not very well...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Math Biology Seminar - 06
March 19, 2009
University of British Columbia
Cellular decisions rely upon a cell making some measurement of its surroundings and then regulating its behaviour based on this measurement. For many cellular processes this decision is regulated by the transcriptional output of a gene which is...
Scientific, Conference
Effects of climate change 2009
March 18–20, 2009
Sliema, Malta
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Probability Seminar - 07
March 18, 2009
University of British Columbia
The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) is a one-parameter family of random growth processes that has been successfully used to analyze a number of models from two-dimensional statistical mechanics. Currently there is interest in trying to formalize our...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Discrete Maths Seminar - 05
March 17, 2009
University of British Columbia
Anomaly detection is the early recognition of significant events that occur within a communications network. The use of graph metrics such as graph edit distance and graph diameters to model changes in networks and to detect anomaly has been well...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 SCAIM Seminar - 06
March 17, 2009
University of British Columbia
I will give a transverse introduction to how Boundary Integral techniques (or their numerical version, the Boundary Element Method) have been and are being used for scattering problems. While in the beginning the field of boundary integral equations...
Scientific, Seminar
Statistical software for climate research 2009
March 16–17, 2009
Sliema, Malta
Scientific, Seminar
2009 PIMS-CSC Seminar - 05
March 13, 2009
Simon Fraser University
In microscopic systems formed by living cells, the small numbers of some reactant molecules can result in dynamical behavior that is discrete and stochastic rather than continuous and deterministic. An analysis tool that respects these dynamical...
Scientific, Seminar
2009 Number Theory Seminar - 09
March 12, 2009
Simon Fraser University
A famous congruence equation question is the solvability of x y = c (mod q) with x, y in intervals of length q^{1/2 + epsilon}. In this talk, we will discuss its history and recent developments. We will show that it is solvable for almost all pairs...