Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar - Forbidden Configurations: Critical Substructures
September 29, 2009
University of British Columbia
Let F be a kxl (0,1)-matrix. We say that a (0,1)-matrix A has F as a `configuration' if some row and column permutation of F is a submatrix of A. We are interested in `simple' matrices, namely (0,1)-matrices with no repeated columns. If A is a simple...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-CSC Seminar: Numerical Construction of Multiresolutions from Subdivisions
September 25, 2009
Simon Fraser University
Mesh subdivisions are used frequently to build objects and characters for computer animation, computer games, and industrial computer-aided geometric design. The design process starts with a coarse-mesh model of an object, and the mesh is refined and...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated group
September 25, 2009
University of British Columbia
We give an example of two finitely generated quasi-isometric groups that are not bilipschitz equivalent. The proof involves structure of quasi-isometries from rigidity theorems, analysis of bilipschitz maps of the n-adics and uniformly finite...
Scientific, Seminar
New Trends and Developments in Variational Analysis
September 24, 2009
University of Victoria
In this talk we discuss some new trends and developments in variational analysis and its numerous applications in both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces, emphasizing those to optimization and equilibrium problems, robust stability...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Hilbert Uniformization II: homology of moduli spaces
September 23, 2009
University of British Columbia
The simplicial complex of talk I consists of pieces of the classifying spaces of symmetric groups. We use this to investigate the homology of moduli spaces. At the end, we discuss generalizations, where the symmetric groups are replaced by other...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Particle Approximation of the Wasserstein Diffusion
September 23, 2009
University of British Columbia
In this talk a finite dimensional approximation of the recently constructed Wasserstein diffusion on the unit interval is presented. More precisely, the empirical measure process associated to a system of interacting, two-sided Bessel processes with...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: The Min system in E.coli: A stochastic polymer model and new ideas for experiments
September 22, 2009
University of British Columbia
The Min system in E.coli -- a group of three interacting proteins playing a role in cell division -- has attracted a lot of attention by modellers, some claiming it to be the 'measurement stick' in the rod-shaped bacterium. Different models have been...
Scientific, Seminar
DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Controllability results for a fish-like swimming body
September 22, 2009
University of British Columbia
We study the controllability of a shape changing body immersed in a perfect fluid. The shape changes are prescribed as functions of time and satisfy constraints ensuring that they are due to the work of body's internal forces only. The net locomotion...
Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar: Introductory CGT
September 22, 2009
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Seminar
Applied Mathematics Seminar: The Benjamin-Ono Equation in the Small Dispersion Limit
September 21, 2009
University of Saskatchewan
The Benjamin-Ono equation is a model for several physical phenomena, including gravity-driven internal waves in certain density-stratified fluids. It has the features of being a nonlocal equation (the dispersion term involves the Hilbert transform of...