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UBC Probability Seminar: Tom Hutchcroft
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
It is conjectured that many models of statistical mechanics have a rich, fractal-like behaviour at and near their points of phase transition, with power-law scaling governed by critical exponents that are expected to depend on the dimension but not...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Gourab Ray
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
In this article we study the double dimer model on hyperbolic Temper- leyan graphs via circle packings. We prove that on such graphs, the weak limit of the dimer model exists if and only if the removed black vertex from the boundary of an exhaustion...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Cole Zmurchok
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
Mathematical modelling is increasingly central to pharmaceutical research and development through the framework of model-informed drug development (MIDD). This talk will introduce the core principles of MIDD and showcase its practical application...
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UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Huang Liding
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
The Calabi-Yau theorem says that given any smooth representative Φ of the first Chern class, there exists a unique K\”ahler metric ω cohomologous to α such that Ricci(ω)=Φ. It is natural to investigate whether similar results hold when the manifolds...
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UBC Number Theory Seminar: Katherine Stange
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
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UBC Probability Seminar: Brett Kolesnik
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
The Lévy–Khintchine formula relates an infinitely divisible probability measure to its Lévy measure, which controls the jumps of the associated Lévy process. If the Lévy measure is well behaved then the two measures are asymptotically equivalent (the...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Alex Mogilner
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
Many cells in our body migrate - 'good' examples are wound healing, embryogenesis and immune response; 'bad' example is metastasis. Migration starts with leading edge protrusion, which is enabled by branching growth of actin network and resisted by...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jessica Conway
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectively controls HIV infection, suppressing HIV viral loads to levels undetectable using commercial testing. Typically, suspension of therapy is followed within weeks by rebound of viral loads to high, pre-therapy...
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UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Ben Young
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
This will be an introduction to the single- and double-dimer models, which arise in many places in mathematics (including in equivariant localization calculations of enumerative invariants).
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UBC Number Theory Seminar: Patrick Ingram
May 7, 2025
University of British Columbia
After a general overview of some open questions on arboreal Galois representations, we will present some recent work on the positive-characteristic case.