PIMS - Remotely Accessible Seminars
The PIMS events listed below were offered remote participation in one form or another. Depending on the specific event, an archive may be available for viewing. Please check the event page for more details.
Past Events
- 12-Nov-15
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Bianca Viray
An arithmetic intersection formula for denominators of Igusa class polynomials [video] more››
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- 10-Dec-15
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Jens Bauch
OM representation of prime ideals and applications in function fields [video] more››
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- 12-Jan-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Drew Sutherland
Sato-Tate Distributions of Abelian Varieties [video] more››
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- 28-Jan-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Andrew Fiori
The Distribution of J-invariants for CM Elliptic Curves defined over Zp [video] more››
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- 18-Feb-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Clifton Cunningham
Lifts of Hilbert modular forms and application to modularity of Abelian varieties [ more››
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- 3-Mar-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Jan Vonk
Modular Jacobians and degenerate p-adic geometry [video] more››
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- 10-Mar-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Joseph Silverman
Homomorphic Encryption / Transcript-Secure Digital Signatures [video] more››
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- 7-Apr-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Anthony Várilly-Alvarado
Lang's conjecture and level structures on abelian varieties [video] more››
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- 11-May-16
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- 10-Jun-16
Abelian Varieties Multi-Site Seminar Series: Nicolas Theriault
Bisections and Squares in Hyperelliptic Curves [video] more››
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- 20-Feb-17
Representations in Arithmetic, Lecture 1: Kiran Kedlaya
Introduction to Adic spaces more››
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- 21-Feb-17
Representations in Arithmetic, Lecture 2: Kiran Kedlaya
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- 28-Feb-17
Representations in Arithmetic, Lecture 3: Kiran Kedlaya
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- 28-Feb-17
Number Theory Seminar/ Representations in Arithmetic: Kiran Kedlaya
The unreasonable effectiveness of p-adic Hodge theory more››
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- 15-May-17
- 19-May-17
Focus Period on Representations in Arithmetic
Galois representations in Arithmetic more››
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- 5-Mar-18
- 9-Mar-18
Representations in Arithmetic Lectures: Antonio Lei
Iwasawa Theory for elliptic curves with super singular reduction. more››
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- 15-Mar-18
- 16-Mar-18
- 27-Mar-18
- 28-Mar-18
Representations in Arithmetic Lectures: Vaidehee Thatte
Ramification Theory for Arbitrary Valuation Rings in Positive Characteristic. more››
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- 22-Oct-19
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Robert Samal
The binary paint shop problem (aka necklace splitting problem) more››
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- 25-Mar-20
UBC Math Biology Webinar: Alastair Jamieson-Lane
In progress COVID-19 Modelling [video] more››
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- 1-Apr-20
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Bard Ermentrout (Online)
Follow your nose - The mathematics of olfactory navigation more››
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- 1-Apr-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Mihai Marian (Online)
The Heegaard Floer Homology of (1,1) Knots more››
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- 8-Apr-20
- 8-Apr-20
UBC Math Biology Webinar: John Tyson (Online)
Multiple fission cycles in Chlamydomonas [video] more››
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- 9-Apr-20
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Seminar: Alia Hamieh (Online)
Mean Values of Long Dirichlet Polynomials with Higher Divisor Coefficients more››
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- 14-Apr-20
The University of Utah Seminar in Ergodic Theory: Jon Chaika (Online)
Boshernitzan's criterion for unique ergodicity Slides more››
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- 15-Apr-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Claudius Zibrowius (Online)
Thin fillings of 4-ended tangles more››
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- 15-Apr-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Greg Huber (Online)
Ambigrammatic genomes: A two-bit tale about some double-dealin' nucleotides more››
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- 17-Apr-20
UW-PIMS Colloquium: Abraham Flaxman (Online)
COVID Math: trailing indicators, leading indicators, math models, and stats models more››
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- 17-Apr-20
University of Calgary Peripatetic Seminar: Chad Nester (Online)
String Diagrams for Regular Restriction Categories more››
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- 21-Apr-20
The University of Utah Seminar in Ergodic Theory: Claire Merriman (Online)
Caroline Series' The modular surface and continued fractions [video] more››
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- 22-Apr-20
UBC Math Biology Seminar: Wesley Pegden (Online)
Modeling strict age-targeted mitigation strategies for COVID-19 [video] more››
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- 22-Apr-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Antonio Alfieri (Online)
Instanton Floer homology of almost-rational plumbings more››
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- 23-Apr-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Natalie Tamam
Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume more››
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- 24-Apr-20
University of Calgary Peripatetic Seminar: JS Lemay (Online)
The symmetric algebra’s other universal properties more››
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- 28-Apr-20
The University of Utah Seminar in Ergodic Theory: Dominik Kwietniak (Online)
An introduction to naive entropy [video] more››
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- 29-Apr-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Stanislav Shvartsman (Online)
Coupled oscillators in the developing germline cluster more››
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- 29-Apr-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Antonio Alfieri (Online)
Deformations of lattice cohomology and the upsilon invariant more››
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- 30-Apr-20
- 1-May-20
University of Calgary Peripatetic Seminar: Ben MacAdam (Online)
Microlinear Lawvere theories more››
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- 2-May-20
- 3-May-20
Alberta Number Theory Days XII (Online)
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- 5-May-20
The University of Utah Seminar in Ergodic Theory: Osama Khalil (Online)
Rigidity of Geodesic Planes in Hyperbolic Manifolds more››
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- 6-May-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Artem Kotelskiy (Online)
Knot homologies through the lens of immersed curves more››
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- 6-May-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Herbert Levine (Online)
What is epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and why is it important for metastasis? [video] more››
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- 7-May-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Sophie MacDonald
Factors of Gibbs measures on subshifts more››
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- 8-May-20
- 8-May-20
UBC Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Nikita Karpenko (Online)
An ultimate proof of Hoffmann-Totaro's conjecture more››
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- 12-May-20
Maryam Mirzakhani Day: Women in Mathematics Film Screening (Online)
Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani more››
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- 13-May-20
- 14-May-20
Real-time modelling of the COVID-19 epidemic: perspectives from British Columbia [video] more››
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- 14-May-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Anthony Sanchez
Gaps of saddle connection directions for some branched covers of tori [video] more››
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- 18-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Jean-Christoph Mourrat (Online)
Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations I more››
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- 19-May-20
The University of Utah Seminar in Ergodic Theory: Shrey Sanadhya (Online)
Bratteli-Vershik models for Cantor and Borel dynamical systems more››
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- 19-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Jean-Christoph Mourrat (Online)
Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations II more››
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- 20-May-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Zipei Nie (Online)
Non-left-orderable surgeries on iterated 1-bridge braids more››
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- 20-May-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Marty Golubitsky (Online)
Binocular Rivalry; Modeling by Network Structure [video] more››
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- 21-May-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Ian Putnam
A Bratteli-Vershik model for Z^2 actions, or how cohomology can help us make dynamical systems [video] more››
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- 21-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Jean-Christoph Mourrat (Online)
Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations III more››
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- 25-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Gady Kozma- Talk 1 (Online)
Critical and near-critical percolation I more››
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- 27-May-20
- 27-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Gady Kozma- Talk 2 (Online)
Critical and near-critical percolation II more››
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- 27-May-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: James Glazier (Online)
Multiscale multicellular modeling of tissue function and disease using CompuCell3D: A simplified computer simulation of acute primary viral infection and immune response in an epithelial tissue [ more››
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- 27-May-20
- 28-Aug-20
Open Online Probability Summer School
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- 28-May-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Gady Kozma- Talk 3 (Online)
Critical and near-critical percolation III more››
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- 30-May-20
The Eighth Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (Online)
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- 1-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Nina Gantert (Online)
Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions I more››
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- 2-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Nina Gantert (Online)
Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions II more››
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- 3-Jun-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Nancy Kopell (Online)
Brain Rhythms and their Interactions more››
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- 3-Jun-20
- 4-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Nina Gantert (Online)
Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions III more››
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- 8-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Ivan Corwin (Online)
Gibbsian line ensembles in integrable probability more››
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- 9-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Ivan Corwin (Online)
Gibbsian line ensembles in integrable probability more››
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- 10-Jun-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jim Keener (Online)
The Mathematics of Life: Making Diffusion Your Friend [video] more››
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- 11-Jun-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Jon Chaika (Online)
Veech's Criterion for a process to be prime [video] more››
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- 15-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Perla Sousi (Online)
Mixing and hitting times for Markov chains I more››
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- 16-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Perla Sousi (Online)
Mixing and hitting times for Markov chains II more››
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- 17-Jun-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Adam C. Martin (Online)
Folding tissues across length scales: Cell-based origami more››
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- 18-Jun-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Diaaeldin Taha
Counting social interactions for discrete subsets of the plane [video] more››
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- 18-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Perla Sousi (Online)
Mixing and hitting times for Markov chains III more››
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- 22-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Frank den Hollander (Online)
Metastability for interacting particle systems I more››
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- 22-Jun-20
- 24-Jun-20
CAIMS- PIMS Coronavirus Modelling Conference
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- 23-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Frank den Hollander (Online)
Metastability for interacting particle systems II more››
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- 24-Jun-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Qing Nie (Online)
Multiscale inference and modeling of cell fate via single-cell data more››
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- 25-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Frank den Hollander (Online)
Metastability for interacting particle systems III more››
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- 25-Jun-20
- 29-Jun-20
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Shabnam Akhtari (Online)
How to count (cubic and quartic) binary forms more››
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- 29-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Aukash Jagannath (Online)
Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glass Models I more››
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- 30-Jun-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Aukash Jagannath (Online)
Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glass Models II more››
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- 1-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Amin Coja-Oghlan (Online)
Disordered systems and random graphs I more››
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- 2-Jul-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Rodrigo Treviño (Online)
Quantitative weak mixing for random substitution tilings more››
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- 2-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Amin Coja-Oghlan (Online)
Disordered systems and random graphs II more››
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- 3-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Amin Coja-Oghlan (Online)
Disordered systems and random graphs III more››
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- 6-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Montanari (Online)
Mean-field methods in high-dimensional statistics and non convex optimization I more››
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- 7-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Montanari (Online)
Mean-field methods in high-dimensional statistics and non convex optimization II more››
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- 7-Jul-20
Pacific Dynamics Seminar: Ping Ngai (Brian) Chung
Stationary measure and orbit closure classification for random walks on surfaces more››
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- 8-Jul-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: David Earn and Jonathan Dushoff (Online)
From 1918 to 2020: analyzing the past and forecasting the future [video] more››
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- 8-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Montanari (Online)
Mean-field methods in high-dimensional statistics and non convex optimization III more››
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- 9-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Montanari (Online)
Mean-field methods in high-dimensional statistics and non convex optimization IV more››
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- 10-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Montanari (Online)
Mean-field methods in high-dimensional statistics and non convex optimization V more››
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- 13-Jul-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Elchanan Mossel (Online)
Simplicity and Complexity in Belief Propagation I more››
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- 15-Jul-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Shane Hutson (Online)
Something's wrong in the (cellular) neighborhood: Mechanisms of epithelial wound detection [video] more››
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- 22-Jul-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Kasia Rejniak
Micro-Pharmacology: Recognizing and Overcoming the Tissue Barriers to Drug Delivery more››
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- 29-Jul-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jennifer Flegg (Online)
Mathematical modelling of the emergence and spread of antimalarial drug resistance [video] more››
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- 4-Aug-20
- 14-Aug-20
- 4-Aug-20
- 14-Aug-20
- 5-Aug-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Magdalena Stolarska (Online)
Modeling the Effects of Cell-Substrate Interaction on the Dynamics of Intracellular Motile Machinery more››
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- 6-Aug-20
PIMS Summer Public Lecture: John Mighton
All Things Being Equal: Why Math is the Key to a Better World [video] more››
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- 6-Aug-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Nina Holden (Online)
Schramm-Loewner evolution and imaginary geometry III more››
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- 12-Aug-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Austin Hopkins (Online)
Tradeoffs in Chemotaxis in Complex Environments more››
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- 8-Sep-20
- 1-Dec-20
- 16-Sep-20
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Marthe Bonamy (Online)
On Vizing's edge colouring question more››
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- 16-Sep-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Persi Diaconis (Online)
Gamblers ruin with many gamblers more››
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- 23-Sep-20
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Thomas Budzinski (Online)
Random discrete surfaces [video] Abstract:A triangulation of a surface is a way to divide more››
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- 23-Sep-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Sarai Hernandez Torres (Online)
Scaling limits of uniform spanning trees in three dimensions more››
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- 28-Sep-20
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar
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- 30-Sep-20
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar (Online)
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- 14-Oct-20
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Shuxing Li (Online)
Packings of Partial Difference Sets [video] As the underlying configuration behind many elegant finite structures, partial difference set more››
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- 21-Oct-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Chapin Korosec (Online)
Modelling and engineering burnt-bridges ratchets more››
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- 22-Oct-20
SFU Operations Research Seminars: Amzi Jeffs
Applying Sunflowers of Convex Sets to the Study of Neural Codes more››
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- 26-Oct-20
Ergodic Theory Lectures: Kathryn Lindsey
An invitation to "Entropy in Dimension One" [video] more››
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- 29-Oct-20
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Debra Boutin
The Cost of 2-Distinguishing Hypercubes [video] more››
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- 30-Oct-20
Rising Stars Colloquium: Dr. Alexandria Volkening
Forecasting the 2020 U.S. elections: a compartmental modelling approach more››
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- 2-Nov-20
Ergodic Theory Lectures: Jayadev Athreya
What is a Foster-Lyapunov-Margulis function? [video] more››
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- 4-Nov-20
- 4-Nov-20
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Sergii Myroshnychenko (Online)
Shape recognition of convex bodies Abstract: A broad class of convex geometry problems deals with questions on retrieval of information more››
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- 4-Nov-20
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar (Online)
The Infinite HaPPY Code more››
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- 4-Nov-20
PIMS-UNBC Distinguished Colloquium Talk: Steven J. Miller
Benford's Law: Why the IRS might care about the 3x + 1 problem and zeta (s) [ more››
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- 6-Nov-20
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Karen Gunderson
Turán numbers for a 4-uniform hypergraph [video] more››
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- 6-Nov-20
PIMS-UVic Distinguished Lecture: Karen Gunderson
Turán numbers for a 4-uniform hypergraph more››
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- 9-Nov-20
Ergodic Theory Lectures: Alistair Windsor
The Smooth Realization Problem and Conjugation by Approximation more››
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- 10-Nov-20
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Kyle Yip
Improving the trivial upper bound on the clique number of Paley graphs and generalized Paley graphs, Part II more››
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- 11-Nov-20
- 16-Nov-20
Ergodic Theory Lectures: Todd Fisher
Accessibility for partially hyperbolic systems more››
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- 17-Nov-20
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Abdul Basit
Point-box incidences and logarithmic density of semilinear graphs more››
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- 17-Nov-20
UBC Diff. Geom. Seminar: Xi Sisi Shen
Estimates for metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature more››
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- 18-Nov-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Robert DeYeso
Integral Klein bottle surgeries and Heegaard Floer homology more››
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- 20-Nov-20
UBC Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Emily Clader
Permutohedral Complexes and Curves With Cyclic Action more››
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- 24-Nov-20
- 25-Nov-20
2020 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lectures: Catherine Sulem
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- 24-Nov-20
UBC Diff. Geom, Math. Phys. Seminar: Giuseppe De Nittis
Quantization of edge currents along magnetic interfaces: A K-theory approach more››
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- 24-Nov-20
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Yifeng Huang
A generating function for counting mutually annihilating matrices over a finite field more››
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- 25-Nov-20
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Zafer Selcuk Aygin (Online)
Relations between \(\triangle+\cdots + \triangle + 3\triangle+\cdots + 3\triangle\) and \(\square+\cdots + \square + 3\square+\cdots + 3\square\) more››
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- 25-Nov-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Antonio Alfieri
Rational cuspidal curves, surfaces of Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau type, and rational homology cobordism: old and new problems at the crossroad of algebraic geometry and low dimensional topology. more››
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- 25-Nov-20
UBC Probability Seminar: Nick Cook
The minimum modulus for random trigonometric polynomials more››
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- 30-Nov-20
- 1-Dec-20
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Alexander Ruys de Perez
Wheels of Neural Codes: A New Criterion for Nonconvexity more››
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- 2-Dec-20
UBC Topology Seminar: Eric Primozic
Motivic cohomology and infinitesimal group schemes more››
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- 3-Dec-20
PIMS-UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Leticia Mattos
Asymmetric Ramsey properties of random graphs for cliques and cycles more››
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- 7-Dec-20
Ergodic Theory Lectures: Nishant Chandgotia
Uniqueness of clusters in percolation more››
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- 9-Dec-20
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Dan Coombs
Herd immunity and heterogeneity, with application to the covid-19 pandemic more››
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- 9-Dec-20
University of Saskatchewan: The quanTA CRG Seminar
The topology and geometry of the space of gapped lattice systems [video] more››
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- 16-Dec-20
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Shirou Wang (Online)
A coupling approach in the computation of geometric ergodicity for stochastic dynamics more››
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