2021 Scientific Events
- 18-Nov-21
- 21-Oct-21
- 23-Sep-21
- 23-Aug-21
- 27-Aug-21
- 23-Aug-21
- 27-Aug-21
- 13-Aug-21
- 14-Aug-21
Prairie Discrete Mathematics Workshop 2021
University of Lethbridge
- 2-Aug-21
- 4-Aug-21
PRIMA 2021 Summer School: Arithmetic geometry: theory and computation
Arithmetic geometry: theory and computation more››
Online
- 26-Jul-21
- 30-Jul-21
- 21-Jul-21
- 14-Jul-21
- 7-Jul-21
- 5-Jul-21
- 9-Jul-21
- 30-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Haggai Liu
Enumerative Properties of Cogrowth Series on Free products of Finite Groups more››
Online
- 28-Jun-21
- 29-Jun-21
Online
- 23-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
- 21-Jun-21
- 25-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
- 16-Jun-21
- 16-Jun-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Akbar Rafiey
Fast and Private Submodular and k-Submodular Functions Maximization with Matroid Constraints more››
Online
- 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
- 5-Jun-21
- 2-Jun-21
- 3-Jun-21
- 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
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Xiang-dong Hou
On the Number of Equivalence Classes of Boolean Functions more››
Online
- 1-Jun-21
- 29-May-21
- 30-May-21
Western Canada Linear Algebra Meeting 2021
Brandon University
- 27-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Didac Martinez Granado
The extremal length systole of the Bolza surface [video] more››
Online
- 26-May-21
PIMS - UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Naba Mukhtar
Simulating Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cell Sheets more››
Online
- 20-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Ryokichi Tanaka
The Manhattan Curve and Rough Similarity Rigidity [video] more››
Online
- 19-May-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Joy Morris
Lexicographic Products and Wreath Products 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
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Christopher Miles
Stochastic Organization in the Mitotic Spindle [video] more››
Online
- 13-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Michael Lipnowski
Towards optimal spectral gaps in large genus [video] more››
Online
- 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
- 10-May-21
- 13-May-21
- 6-May-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Aaron Calderon
Random hyperbolic surfaces via flat geometry [video] more››
Online
- 6-May-21
PIHOT CRG Seminar: Guillaume Carlier
Remarks on multi-marginals entropic optimal transport and Sinkhorn algorithm [video] more››
Online
- 5-May-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Jun Allard
Optimal curvature in long-range cell-cell communication [video] more››
Online
- 4-May-21
PIMS - URegina Distinguished Lecture: Adrian Ioana
Classification and rigidity for group von Neumann algebras [video] more››
Online
- 29-Apr-21
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: James Farre
Conjugating flows on the moduli of hyperbolic and flat surfaces [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
- 28-Apr-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Calina Copos
Cell symmetry breaking for movement through a mechanochemical mechanism [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
- 21-Apr-21
UBC/ PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award Colloquium: Elina Robeva
Density estimation under total positivity and conditional independence [video] more››
Online
- 15-Apr-21
PIMS-UNBC Distinguished Lecture: Nilima Nigam
Why should we care about Steklov eigenproblems? 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
- 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
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: Laurent MacKay
Feedback onto cellular polarization from paxillin implicaions for migrating cells [video] more››
Online
- 13-Apr-21
PIMS - UVic Math Colloquium: Mark Lewis
Challenges and Opportunities in Mathematical Biology 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
- 7-Apr-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Sajad Fathi Hafshejani
The non-monotone technique for optimization algorithms. more››
Online
- 1-Apr-21
PIMS Network Courses Guest Lecture: Nati Linial
A taste of random simplicial complexes more››
Online
- 31-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Tomáš Masařík
Optimal discretization is fixed-parameter tractable more››
Online
- 26-Mar-21
PIMS - UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Ciprian Manolescu
Khovanov homology and 4-manifolds more››
Online
- 25-Mar-21
- 25-Mar-21
- 25-Mar-21
PIMS - UVic Math Colloquium: Clemency Montelle
Exploring the History of Mathematics in India more››
Online
- 25-Mar-21
PIMS - USaskatchewan Applied Math Seminar: Ákos Nagy
Novel solutions in Ginzburg–Landau theory more››
Online
- 24-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Daniel Panario
Finite fields in combinatorial arrays: constructions and applications more››
Online
- 22-Mar-21
- 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
- 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
- 18-Mar-21
PIMS - UCalgary Math and Philosophy Lecture: Patricia Blanchette
Geometry, Logic, and Philosophy: The Case of the Parallels Postulate [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
- 17-Mar-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Peter Kristel
The geometry of the spinning string [video] more››
Online
- 11-Mar-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium: Lauren Williams
From hopping particles to Macdonald and Schubert polynomials [Video] more››
Online
- 11-Mar-21
- 11-Mar-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Liana Yepremyan
Size-Ramsey numbers of powers of hypergraph trees and long subdivisions [video] more››
Online
- 10-Mar-21
PIMS - SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Zeying Wang
Partial difference sets in abelian groups more››
Online
- 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
- 4-Mar-21
- 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
- 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
- 25-Feb-21
PHIOT CRG Seminar: Aaron Palmer
Stochastic Optimal Transport, Control Theory, and PDEs more››
Online
- 25-Feb-21
- 25-Feb-21
Kantorovich Initiative seminar: Aaron Palmer
Stochastic Optimal Transport, Control Theory, and PDEs more››
Online
- 24-Feb-21
- 24-Feb-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Andrew Schopieray
Fusion rings and their categorifications [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
- 11-Feb-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquium: Ben Green
New lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers [video] 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
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
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Annie Raymond
Graph Density Inequalities, Sums of Squares and Tropicalization [video] more››
Online
- 10-Feb-21
UBC Probability Seminar: Zongchen Chen
Optimal Mixing of Glauber Dynamics: Entropy Factorization via High-Dimensional Expansion more››
Online
- 10-Feb-21
UBC Mathematical Biology Seminar: John Lowengrub
Multiscale modeling of tissues: Bridging the cell and tissue scales more››
Online
- 9-Feb-21
- 8-Feb-21
UBC Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Yu-Wei Fan
Stokes matrices, character varieties, and points on spheres 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
- 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
- 4-Feb-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Shoham Letzter
An improvement on Łuczak's connected matchings method [video] more››
Online
- 3-Feb-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Debanjana Kundu
Iwasawa Theory of (Fine) Selmer Groups 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
- 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
- 28-Jan-21
- 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
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
- 27-Jan-21
PIMS- SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Ambat Vijayakumar
Distance spectrum of graphs - some recent studies 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
- 22-Jan-21
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar (Online)
Combinatorial structures in perturbative quantum field theory 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
- 21-Jan-21
PIMS 25th Anniversary Network-Wide Colloquia: Ingrid Daubechies (CANCELLED)
Discovering low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data sets more››
Online
- 20-Jan-21
PIMS- SFU Discrete Math Seminar:Peter Bradshaw
Flexible list colorings in graphs of bounded degree more››
Online
- 14-Jan-21
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Sophie Spirkl
The Erdos-Hajnal conjecture for the five-cycle more››
Online
- 13-Jan-21
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Christopher M van Bommel
Quantum State Transfer on Graphs more››
Online