PIMS 2021 and Future Scientific Events
- 13-Jan-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Christopher M van Bommel
Quantum State Transfer on Graphs more››
Online
- 14-Jan-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Sophie Spirkl
The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture for the five-cycle more››
Online
- 20-Jan-21
PIMS- SFU Discrete Math Seminar:Peter Bradshaw
Flexible list colorings in graphs of bounded degree more››
Online
- 21-Jan-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquia: Ingrid Daubechies (CANCELLED)
Discovering low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data sets more››
Online
- 21-Jan-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Paul Apisa & Alex Wright
Large orbit closures of translation surfaces are strata or loci of double covers more››
Online
- 22-Jan-21
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar (Online)
Combinatorial structures in perturbative quantum field theory more››
Online
- 22-Jan-21
UBC/ PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award Colloquium: Liam Watson
What is Khovanov homology, and when is it boring? more››
Online
- 27-Jan-21
PIMS- SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Ambat Vijayakumar
Distance spectrum of graphs - some recent studies more››
Online
- 28-Jan-21
PIMS- U of Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Micah Milinovich
Irregularities of Dirichlet L-functions and a Chebyshev-type bias for zeros more››
Online
- 28-Jan-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Paul Apisa & Alex Wright
Five-lecture series: Large orbit closures of translation surfaces are strata or loci of double covers more››
Online
- 28-Jan-21
- 29-Jan-21
- 30-Jan-21
This event is a kickoff meeting for the PIHOT Collaborative Research Group. The event will take place via zoom. Please join the mailing list for more››
Online
- 1-Feb-21
PIMS- U of Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Quanli Shen
The first moment of quadratic twists of modular L-functions more››
Online
- 3-Feb-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Debanjana Kundu
Iwasawa Theory of (Fine) Selmer Groups more››
Online
- 4-Feb-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Shoham Letzter
An improvement on Łuczak's connected matchings method [video] more››
Online
- 4-Feb-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Paul Apisa & Alex Wright
Five-lecture series: Large orbit closures of translation surfaces are strata or loci of double covers more››
Online
- 5-Feb-21
PIMS-UW Colloquium: Shayan Oveis Gharan
Strongly Rayleigh Distributions and a (slightly) Improved Approximation algorithm for Metric TSP more››
Online
- 8-Feb-21
UBC Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Yu-Wei Fan
Stokes matrices, character varieties, and points on spheres more››
Online
- 9-Feb-21
- 10-Feb-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: John Lowengrub
Multiscale modeling of tissues: Bridging the cell and tissue scales more››
Online
- 10-Feb-21
UBC Probability Seminar: Zongchen Chen
Optimal Mixing of Glauber Dynamics: Entropy Factorization via High-Dimensional Expansion more››
Online
- 11-Feb-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Annie Raymond
Graph Density Inequalities, Sums of Squares and Tropicalization [video] more››
Online
- 11-Feb-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Paul Apisa & Alex Wright
Five-lecture series: Large orbit closures of translation surfaces are strata or loci of double covers more››
Online
- 11-Feb-21
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Helen Jenne
UBC Science Early Career Invited Lecture: Dimers, double-dimers, and the PT/DT correspondence more››
Online
- 11-Feb-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium: Ben Green
New lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers [video] more››
Online
- 18-Feb-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Paul Apisa & Alex Wright
Five-lecture series: Large orbit closures of translation surfaces are strata or loci of double covers more››
Online
- 24-Feb-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Andrew Schopieray
Fusion rings and their categorifications [Video] more››
Online
- 24-Feb-21
- 25-Feb-21
Kantorovich Initiative seminar: Aaron Palmer
Stochastic Optimal Transport, Control Theory, and PDEs more››
Online
- 25-Feb-21
- 25-Feb-21
PHIOT CRG Seminar: Aaron Palmer
Stochastic Optimal Transport, Control Theory, and PDEs more››
Online
- 2-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Nancy Ann Neudauer
Being Together and Better: Building, Belonging, and Giving Back to Mathematical Communities more››
Online
- 4-Mar-21
PIMS-UNBC Distinguished Colloquium: James Watmough
Case importation and community spread: post-pandemic control of the spread of sARS-CoV-2 in low density populations. more››
Online
- 4-Mar-21
- 8-Mar-21
PIMS- UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Chris Bauch and Madhur Anand
Human-environmentsystems modelling for sustainable outcomes: from forestpests to COVID-19 more››
Online
- 10-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Zeying Wang
Partial difference sets in abelian groups more››
Online
- 11-Mar-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Liana Yepremyan
Size-Ramsey numbers of powers of hypergraph trees and long subdivisions [video] more››
Online
- 11-Mar-21
- 11-Mar-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium: Lauren Williams
From hopping particles to Macdonald and Schubert polynomials [Video] more››
Online
- 17-Mar-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Peter Kristel
The geometry of the spinning string [video] more››
Online
- 17-Mar-21
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar
Crystallography of hyperbolic lattices: from children's drawings to Fuchsian groups [video] more››
Online
- 18-Mar-21
PIMS - UCalgary Math and Philosophy Lecture: Patricia Blanchette
Geometry, Logic, and Philosophy: The Case of the Parallels Postulate [video] more››
Online
- 18-Mar-21
PIMS - UVictoria Math Colloquium: Piers Bursill-Hall
So where exactly did algebra come from? Hint: they didn't tell you the truth. more››
Online
- 19-Mar-21
PIMS-UBC Rising Star Colloquium: Connor Mooney
PIMS-UBC Rising Star Colloquium: Singularity structures in solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation more››
Online
- 22-Mar-21
- 24-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Daniel Panario
Finite fields in combinatorial arrays: constructions and applications more››
Online
- 25-Mar-21
PIMS - USaskatchewan Applied Math Seminar: Ákos Nagy
Novel solutions in Ginzburg–Landau theory more››
Online
- 25-Mar-21
PIMS - UVic Math Colloquium: Clemency Montelle
Exploring the History of Mathematics in India more››
Online
- 25-Mar-21
- 25-Mar-21
- 26-Mar-21
PIMS - UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Ciprian Manolescu
Khovanov homology and 4-manifolds more››
Online
- 31-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Tomáš Masařík
Optimal discretization is fixed-parameter tractable more››
Online
- 1-Apr-21
PIMS Network Courses Guest Lecture: Nati Linial
A taste of random simplicial complexes more››
Online
- 7-Apr-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Sajad Fathi Hafshejani
The non-monotone technique for optimization algorithms. more››
Online
- 7-Apr-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium: John Baez
The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything [video] more››
Online
- 13-Apr-21
PIMS - UVic Math Colloquium: Mark Lewis
Challenges and Opportunities in Mathematical Biology more››
Online
- 14-Apr-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Laurent MacKay
Feedback onto cellular polarization from paxillin implicaions for migrating cells [video] more››
Online
- 14-Apr-21
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar
Random walks and graphs in materials, biology, and quantum information science [video] more››
Online
- 14-Apr-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Carolyn Chun
Graphs and binary matroids whose odd circuits all have size three or five more››
Online
- 15-Apr-21
PIMS-UNBC Distinguished Lecture: Nilima Nigam
Why should we care about Steklov eigenproblems? more››
Online
- 21-Apr-21
UBC/ PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award Colloquium: Elina Robeva
Density estimation under total positivity and conditional independence [video] more››
Online
- 21-Apr-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Kenji Sugioka
Extrinsic and intrinsic controls of cortical flow regulate C. elegans embryogenesis [video] more››
Online
- 28-Apr-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Calina Copos
Cell symmetry breaking for movement through a mechanochemical mechanism [video] more››
Online
- 28-Apr-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Eric Jones
Stochasticity in an ecological model of the microbiome influences the efficacy of simulated bacteriotherapies [video more››
Online
- 29-Apr-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: James Farre
Conjugating flows on the moduli of hyperbolic and flat surfaces [video] more››
Online
- 4-May-21
PIMS - URegina Distinguished Lecture: Adrian Ioana
Classification and rigidity for group von Neumann algebras [video] more››
Online
- 5-May-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Jun Allard
Optimal curvature in long-range cell-cell communication [video] more››
Online
- 6-May-21
PIHOT CRG Seminar: Guillaume Carlier
Remarks on multi-marginals entropic optimal transport and Sinkhorn algorithm [video] more››
Online
- 6-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Aaron Calderon
Random hyperbolic surfaces via flat geometry [video] more››
Online
- 10-May-21
- 13-May-21
- 12-May-21
- 15-May-21
Women in Mathematics Day: Movie & Panel Discussion- Picture a Scientist
On May 12, 2021 (a day in honour of women in mathematics), PIMS will offer a virtual screening of the acclaimed film Picture a Scientist. This will be followed by a panel discussion on May 14, 2021. See below for details or more››
Online
- 13-May-21
- 13-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Michael Lipnowski
Towards optimal spectral gaps in large genus [video] more››
Online
- 19-May-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Christopher Miles
Stochastic Organization in the Mitotic Spindle [video] more››
Online
- 19-May-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Chandra Rajulapati (Online)
Data accuracy for risk management in changing climate. more››
Online
- 19-May-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Joy Morris
Lexicographic Products and Wreath Products more››
Online
- 20-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Ryokichi Tanaka
The Manhattan Curve and Rough Similarity Rigidity [video] more››
Online
- 26-May-21
PIMS - UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Naba Mukhtar
Simulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cell Sheets more››
Online
- 27-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Didac Martinez Granado
The extremal length systole of the Bolza surface [video] more››
Online
- 29-May-21
- 30-May-21
Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting 2021
Brandon University
- 1-Jun-21
- 2-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Xiang-dong Hou
On the Number of Equivalence Classes of Boolean Functions more››
Online
- 2-Jun-21
PIMS - UBC Math Biology Seminar: Jude Kong
The impact of social, economic, environmental factors and public health measures on the dynamics of COVID-19 [ more››
Online
- 2-Jun-21
- 3-Jun-21
- 5-Jun-21
- 8-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Fan Chung (Round the World Relay in Combinatorics)
Trees and Forests in Green's Functions of a Graph more››
Online
- 16-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Akbar Rafiey
Fast and Private Submodular and k-Submodular Functions Maximization with Matroid Constraints more››
Online
- 16-Jun-21
- 20-Jun-21
- 25-Jun-21
Entropic Regularization of Optimal Transport and Applications
The Banff International Research Station will host the "Entropic Regularization of Optimal Transport and Applications" workshop in Banff from June 20 to June 25, 2021. more››
Online
- 21-Jun-21
- 25-Jun-21
- 21-Jun-21
Narrowing the Gap: Addressing Mathematical Inequity in Indigenous Education
Narrowing the Gap: Addressing Mathematical Inequity in Indigenous Education more››
Online
- 23-Jun-21
- 23-Jun-21
Navigation through Flexibility of Cognitive Representations
Navigation through Flexibility of Cognitive Representations more››
Online
- 28-Jun-21
- 29-Jun-21
Online
- 30-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Haggai Liu
Enumerative Properties of Cogrowth Series on Free products of Finite Groups more››
Online
- 30-Jun-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Stephen Zhang
Dynamical inference for biological processes through the lens of optimal transport [video] more››
Online
- 5-Jul-21
- 9-Jul-21
- 7-Jul-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Christin Bibby
Combinatorics of Orbit Configuration Spaces more››
Online
- 7-Jul-21
UBC Math biology Seminar: Alastair Jamieson-Lane
Epidemic arrivals and Antibiotic Calenders [video] more››
Online
- 14-Jul-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Yifan Jing
Minimal and Nearly Minimal Measure Expansions in Locally Compact Groups more››
Online
- 21-Jul-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Sophie Spirkl
The Complexity of List-5-colouring with a Forbidden Induced Sugbraph more››
Online
- 21-Jul-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Jay Newby
Dynamic Self Organization and Microscale Fluid Properties of Nucleoplasm [video] more››
Online
- 22-Jul-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Inhyeok Choi
Random walks on Gromov hyperbolic spaes and Teichmüller spaces. Pacific Dynamics Seminar [video more››
Online
- 26-Jul-21
- 30-Jul-21
- 28-Jul-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Anurag Bishnoi
The Minimum Degree of Minimal Ramsey Graphs for Cliques more››
Online
- 28-Jul-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Jaye Sudweeks
Environmental Escape from the Prisoner's Dilemma [video] more››
None
- 2-Aug-21
- 4-Aug-21
PRIMA 2021 Summer School: Rational curves and moduli spaces in arithmetic geometry
Rational curves and moduli spaces in arithmetic geometry more››
Online
- 4-Aug-21
- 4-Aug-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Daniele Agostinelli
Nutations in Growing Plant Shoots: Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in the Presence of Elastic Deformations [ more››
Online
- 13-Aug-21
- 14-Aug-21
Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop 2021
University of Lethbridge
- 23-Aug-21
- 26-Aug-21
- 23-Aug-21
- 27-Aug-21
- 15-Sep-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Hui Huang
Large systems of interacting particles and their application in optimization [video] more››
Online
- 18-Sep-21
- 26-Sep-21
- 22-Sep-21
UVic Mathematics and Statistics Seminar: Peijjun Sang
A reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework for functional classification more››
Online
- 23-Sep-21
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Assaf Naor
Isomorphic reverse isoperimetry and Lipschitz extension [video] more››
Online
- 24-Sep-21
PIMS-SFU Computational Math Seminar - Ryan Konno (SFU)
Continuum Mechanical Modelling of Skeletal Muscle Affected by Cerebral Palsy more››
Online
- 28-Sep-21
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Zhichao Wang
Min-max minimal surfaces with multiplicity two more››
University of British Columbia
- 28-Sep-21
UVictoria Dynamics seminar: Sebastian Ferrando
Conditional Non-Lattice Integration, Pricing and Superhedging more››
University of Victoria
- 29-Sep-21
PIMS - UCalgary Louise & Richard K. Guy Lecture: Ben Green
Unsolved Problems in Number Theory [video] more››
Online
- 29-Sep-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Elizabeth Carlson
Using Observations to Accurately and Efficiently Model Turbulent Flows: Parameter Recovery, Sensitivity Analysis, Nonlinear Data Assimilation Algorithms, and a Real-World Implementation. [ more››
Online
- 29-Sep-21
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar
Pursuit-evasion Games on Graphs more››
University of Lethbridge
- 29-Sep-21
Topological Data Analysis of Collective Behavior
Topological Data Analysis of Collective Behavior [video] more››
Online
- 2-Oct-21
Oregon Number Theory Days: Fall 2021
Portland State University, Oregon
- 5-Oct-21
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Ismaël Bailleul
Zeta determinant for Anderson operator more››
University of British Columbia
- 5-Oct-21
PIMS - UVic Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Avelio Sepúlveda Donoso
Scaling limit of the discrete Coulomb gas more››
Online
- 6-Oct-21
Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi
EKR Module Property more››
University of Lethbridge
- 6-Oct-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Andrew Krause
Footnotes to Turing (1952): Some Modern Challenges in Pattern Formation [video] more››
Online
- 6-Oct-21
UVic Mathematics and Statistics Seminar: Li Xing
Optimal Study Design for Reducing Variances of Coefficient Estimators in Change-Point Models. more››
Online
- 8-Oct-21
PIMS-SFU Computational Math - Changhui Tan (U South Carolina)
The Flow of Polynomial Roots Under Differentiation more››
Online
- 12-Oct-21
PIMS - UVic Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Gourab Ray
Uniform even subgraphs and graphical representations of Ising as factors of I.I.D more››
University of Victoria
- 12-Oct-21
- 13-Oct-21
ULethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Mohsen Aliabadi
Matchable Subsets in Groups and their Linear Analogues more››
University of Lethbridge
- 13-Oct-21
UVic Mathematics and Statistics Seminar: Cedric Beaulac
Variational Autoencoders: an introduction to new applications and a new regularization approach. more››
Online
- 13-Oct-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Youngmin Park
High-Order Accuracy Computation of Coupling Functions for Strongly Coupled Oscillators [video] more››
Online
- 13-Oct-21
University of Victoria
- 13-Oct-21
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Mo Ebrahimkhani
Programmable Human Organoids via Genetic Design and Engineering [video] more››
Online
- 14-Oct-21
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay
Building Cartesian Differential Categories as Kleisli Categories more››
Online
- 14-Oct-21
PIMS - UVictoria Distinguished Colloquium: Louigi Addario-Berry
The Connection Between RDEs and PDEs more››
TBA
- 20-Oct-21
ULethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Iren Darijani
Arc-disjoint Hamiltonian Dipaths in Toroidal Digrids more››
University of Lethbridge
- 22-Oct-21
- 26-Oct-21
- 29-Oct-21
- 26-Oct-21
PIMS - UVic Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Jacob Richey
Phases for activated random walk and the stochastic sandpile more››
University of Victoria
- 27-Oct-21
ULethbridge - Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Nima Hoda
Shortcut Graphs and Groups more››
University of Lethbridge
- 27-Oct-21
- 28-Oct-21
- 3-Nov-21
ULethbridge - Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Connor Riddlesden
Automorphism and Tree-decomposition more››
University of Lethbridge
- 5-Nov-21
PIMS-SFU Computational Math Seminar: Thomas Hillen
Mathematical Modelling of Metastasis more››
Simon Fraser University
- 10-Nov-21
CRG on Movement and Symmetry in Graphs Distinguished Lecture Series: Cheryl E Praeger
Basic edge-transitive oriented graphs of valency four more››
Online
- 10-Nov-21
ULethbridge - Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Angsuman Das
Co-maximal Graphs of Subgroups more››
University of Lethbridge
- 10-Nov-21
- 18-Nov-21
- 21-Nov-21
- 24-Nov-21
Workshop on Applications of Quantum Information in QFT and Cosmology
University of Lethbridge
- 24-Nov-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Reinier Kramer
Hurwitz Numbers via Topological Recursion more››
Online
- 1-Dec-21
- 8-Dec-21
- 9-Dec-21
- 11-Dec-21
- 20-Jan-22
- 24-Feb-22
- 3-Mar-22
- 24-Mar-22
- 7-Apr-22