Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Yixiang Wu
February 24, 2025
University of Alberta
In this talk, we consider reaction-diffusion and patch epidemic models with mass action or standard incidence mechanism and study the impact of limiting population movement on disease transmissions. We set either the dispersal rate of the susceptible...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Lucas Villagra Torcomian
February 24, 2025
University of Lethbridge
In 1770 Euler observed that 3 3 + 4 3 + 5 3 = 6 3 and asked if there was another perfect power that equals the sum of consecutive cubes. This captivated the attention of many important mathematicians, such as Cunningham, Catalan, Genocchi and Lucas...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Dan Kráľ
February 24, 2025
University of Victoria
Depth and width parameters of graphs, e.g., tree-width, path-width and tree-depth, play a crucial role in algorithmic and structural graph theory. These notions are of fundamental importance in the theory of graph minors, fixed parameter complexity...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Gilles Mordant
February 20, 2025
Online
In this talk, we will discuss the question of establishing CLTs for empirical entropic optimal transport when choosing the regularisation parameter as a decreasing function of the sample size. Importantly, decreasing the regularisation parameter...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Statistical Data Science Seminar: Yue Zhang
February 19, 2025
University of Victoria
Comparative genomics offers valuable insights into evolutionary biology, uncovering patterns such as whole-genome duplications, gene retention, and gene loss. Polyploidization, a widespread evolutionary process, plays a pivotal role in shaping the...
Scientific, Seminar
POSTPONED: PIMS Emergent Research Seminar Series: Anastassiya Semenova
February 19, 2025
Online
The study of surface gravity waves is crucial for understanding the formation of rogue waves and whitecaps in ocean swell. Waves originating from the epicenter of a storm can often be approximated as unidirectional. In this presentation, we will...
Scientific, Colloquia
UWashington-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Bryna Kra
February 14, 2025
University of Washington
Since Szemeredi's Theorem and Furstenberg's proof thereof using ergodic theory, dynamical methods have been used to show the existence of numerous patterns in sets of positive upper density. These tools have led to uncovering new patterns that occur...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Seda Albayrak
February 13, 2025
Simon Fraser University
Christol's theorem (1979), which sets ground for many interactions between theoretical computer science and number theory, characterizes the coefficients of a formal power series over a finite field of positive characteristic $p>0$ that satisfy an...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminar: Matt Olechnowicz
February 13, 2025
Online
We show that the reduction of a projective endomorphism modulo a discrete valuation naturally takes the form of a set-theoretic correspondence. This raises the possibility of classifying "reduction types" of such dynamical systems, reminiscent of the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry Seminar: Emily Casey
February 12, 2025
University of British Columbia
A longstanding conjecture of Carleson stated that the tangent points of the boundaries of certain planar domains can be characterized by the behavior of the Carleson ε-function. This conjecture, which was fully resolved by Jaye, Tolsa, and Villa in...