Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Konstantinos Mamis
February 14, 2024
Online
The questions of how healthy colonic crypts maintain their size under the rapid cell turnover in intestinal epithelium, and how homeostasis is disrupted by driver mutations, are central to understanding colorectal tumorigenesis. We propose a three...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Thomas Richard
February 13, 2024
University of British Columbia
Let $(M^n,g)$ be compact Riemannian manifold, it is a classical result that if $(M^n,g)$ has Ricci curvature bigger than the standard sphere, its volume and diameter are smaller than those of the sphere. If $(M^n,g)$ only has scalar curvature bigger...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Dynamics and Probability Seminar: Eric Foxall
February 13, 2024
University of Victoria
For a population model that encodes parent-child relations, an ordered representation is a partial or complete labelling of individuals, in order of their descendants’ long-term success in some sense, with respect to which the ancestral structure is...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Jesse Campion Loth
February 13, 2024
Simon Fraser University
How many ways are there to write a given permutation as a product of m transpositions (i_1, j_1) (i_2, j_2) \dots (i_m, j_m)? For example, there are three ways to write (1,2,3) as a product of two transpositions: (1,2)(1,3), (1,3)(2,3) and (2,3)(1,2)...
Scientific, Seminar
L-functions in Analytic Number Theory: Vivian Kuperberg
February 12, 2024
University of Lethbridge
In 2000, Shiu proved that there are infinitely many primes whose last digit is 1 such that the next prime also ends in a 1. However, it is an open problem to show that there are infinitely many primes ending in 1 such that the next prime ends in 3...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Haggai Liu
February 12, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The Deligne-Mumford compactification, $\overline{M_{0,n}}$, of the moduli space of $n$ distinct ordered points on $\mathbb{P}^1$, has many well understood geometric and topological properties. For example, it is a smooth projective variety over its...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry: Alex Rutar
February 12, 2024
University of British Columbia
A tangent of a compact set is an accumulation point in Hausdorff distance given by 'zooming in' at a given point. For general compact sets, it is well-known that the Assouad dimension is characterized by dimensions of weak tangents (where the...
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Jay Newby
February 12, 2024
University of Alberta
A collection of identical and independent rare event first passage times is considered. The problem of finding the fastest out of $N$ such events to occur is called an extreme first passage time. The rare event times are singular and limit to...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Peripatetic Seminar: Robin Cockett
February 9, 2024
University of Calgary
The aim of this talk about work in progress is to describe the local/separable factorization for restriction functors and for join restriction functors.
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Hiranmoy Pal
February 9, 2024
Online
We study the existence of quantum state transfer on double subdivided star, which is obtained by joining the coalescence vertices of a pair of subdivided stars. Using the Galois group of the characteristic polynomial of a double subdivided star, we...