Jason Bell | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

Jason Bell is a Professor of Pure Mathematics and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2002 and held a postdoc at the University of Michigan from 2002–2005. He then held a position at Simon Fraser University before moving to the University of Waterloo in 2012. He was Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Algebra from 2016–2019 and has done work in many different areas of mathematics, including both complex and arithmetic dynamics, quantum algebras, Hopf algebras, Poisson algebras, graph theory, matroid theory, design theory, algebraic geometry, mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, the theory of difference and differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, and Diophantine approximation.

Title: Mahler measures in group rings (Lalin) Abstract: We will consider a generalization of the Mahler measure elements in group rings, in terms of the Lueck-Fuglede-Kadison determinant. A natural question is the variation of the Mahler measure when...

This Summer School is part of the activities of the CRG in Algebraic Geometry, Cohomology and Representation Theory. Organizers Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Jochen Kuttler (University of Alberta), Arturo Pianzola (University of...

The event consists of 7 or 8 talks from algebraists, mainly from Alberta and British Columbia, and some from outside the PIMS jurisdiction. The workshop includes a banquet on the evening of April 18th, 2009.

Let $K$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$ and let $f(t_1,\ldots ,t_d)$ be a power series in $d$ variables with coefficients in $K$. We discuss a recent generalization of both Derksen's recent analogue of the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem in positive...

Let K be a field of characteristic zero and let k and l be two multiplicatively independent positive integers. We prove the following result: a power series F(x) in K[[ x]] satisfies both a k- and a l-Mahler type functional equation if and only if it...

Given a field K, a K-valued sequence is said to satisfy a linear recurrence if the n-th term can be expressed as a fixed K-linear combination of the preceding d terms for some d. The sequence of Fibonacci numbers is a famous example of such a...