Upcoming Events
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS-UManitoba Distinguished Colloquium: Dave Campbell
April 16, 2026
University of Manitoba
Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Text embeddings have revolutionized the use of text as data leading to vastly improved document clustering and retrieval and recommender systems by finding lower dimensional structure in the text. Furthermore, these...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Lord Kavi
April 17, 2026
Online
Abstract TBA
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Ricardo Baptista
April 17, 2026
Simon Fraser University
Abstract TBA
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Emanuela Marangone
April 22, 2026
Online
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Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Andrés Chirre
April 27, 2026
University of Lethbridge
One of my favorite quotations in mathematics is due to Titchmarsh, who remarked: “The finer theory of the partial sums of the Möbius function is extremely obscure, and the results are not nearly so precise as the corresponding ones in the prime...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Olivier Lafitte
April 27, 2026
Simon Fraser University
We consider a magnetized plasma (in the case of a tokamak) where the density of ions $ n_0$ as well as the imposed vertical magnetic field $B_0$ dépend on the horizontal variable $x$. The linearized system of Euler-Maxwell équations (system of 10...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles Spring 2026 Session 7
April 27, 2026
PLEASE NOTE: The room number for this session is not yet known, but it will take place at UBC's Point Grey campus. The location in the sidebar will be updated as soon as it is known. Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Sarojini Mohapatra
May 1, 2026
Online
In this talk, we discuss pair state transfer on graphs with respect to the adjacency matrix. We show that the evolution of certain pair states in a quantum network with isomorphic branches depends solely on the local structure, and it remains...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2026
May 2, 2026
University of British Columbia
ELMACON is an annual math contest for students in grades 5, 6, and 7. Students tackle hard mathematical questions in an competitive environment to determine who will take home trophies and prizes. The contest is designed to be challenging but fun. It...
Scientific, Conference
Alberta Mathematics Dialogue (AMD) 2026
May 7–8, 2026
MacEwan University
The 2-day meeting will have 4 plenary lectures, plus 3-4 research-focused sessions per day. It is planned to have one session on challenges faced by women and underrepresented groups in mathematics; a session on mathematical education, outreach and...