Past Events

Unrolled quantum groups are a family of quantum algebras closely related to the non-restricted specialization of Drinfeld-Jimbo algebras at roots of unity. These quantum groups have played a pivotal role in the study of the Kazhdan-Lusztig...

The semi-random graph process can be thought of as a one player game. Starting with an empty graph on n vertices, in each round a random vertex u is presented to the player, who chooses a vertex v and adds the edge uv to the graph (hence 'semi-random...

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

The SIAM Pacific Northwest Section (PNWS) holds a meeting every two years; this upcoming meeting is the third such meeting, and one of the main events organized by the SIAM PNWS. WSU Vancouver will host the third biennial meeting of the SIAM Pacific...

Despite being the most efficient set of computational techniques available to the theoretical physicist, quantum field theory (QFT) does not describe all the observed features of the quantum interactions of our universe. At the same time, its...

GAP XVII — Vancouver "Deformations and higher structures" The seventeenth edition of the annual GAP conference and summer school will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from Monday May 16 to Friday May 20, 2022. Mini...

This workshop, which is aimed chiefly at graduate students, will bring together students, postdocs and faculty in mathematical biology in Western Canada. Invited speaker Dr. Jimmy Garnier will be giving an extended lecture on his work in eco...

This is the registration page for the Western Canada Math Biology Spring Workshop 2022. Registration for this event has closed. Health requirements: PIMS and the University of British Columbia will implement guidelines set by the Office of the...

Our world swirls with percentages, ratios, and graphs. These numbers are often presumed to be objective reflections of reality. But they are not. To measure a human-designed society requires human-designed measures, with all attendant foibles folded...

Tangent categories are a categorical generalization of the category of manifolds by having maps like the projection and the zero-section of the tangent bundle that fulfill certain relations. With a similar strategy, Cartesian differential categories...