Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Joshua P Turner
September 25, 2025
University of Victoria
We will discuss a class of ideals in a polynomial ring studied by Mark Haiman in his work on the Hilbert scheme of points and discuss how they are related to homology of affine Springer fibers, Khovanov-Rozansky homology of links, and to the ORS...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Brent Pym
September 24, 2025
University of Regina
A number is called a "period" if it can be expressed as the volume of a region in Euclidean space, defined by polynomial inequalities with rational coefficients. Many famous constants, such as π, log(2) and special values of the Riemann zeta function...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Gourab Ray
September 24, 2025
University of British Columbia
We examine the behavior of a function sampled from the invariant measure asso- ciated to the focusing discrete Non Linear Schrodinger equation, defined on a discrete torus of dimension d≥3, and nonlinearity parameter p > 4, in the infinite volume...
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminar: Fabien Pazuki
September 24, 2025
University of Calgary
Isogenies between elliptic curves have attracted a lot of attention, and over finite fields the structures that they generate are fascinating. For supersingular primes, isogeny graphs are very connected. For ordinary primes, isogeny graphs (graphs...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: JC Loredo-Osti
September 24, 2025
University of British Columbia
The many ways to model an infectious disease go from simple predator-prey Lotka-Volterra compartmentalised models to highly dimensional models. These models are also commonly expressed as the solution to a system of deterministic differential...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
September 24, 2025
University of Lethbridge
In this talk, we first introduce the Brumer-Rosen-Zantema exact sequence (BRZ), a four-term sequence related to strongly ambiguous ideal classes in finite Galois extensions of number fields. Then, using BRZ, we obtain some known cohomological results...
Scientific, Seminar
URegina Topology & Geometry Seminar: Brent Pym
September 23, 2025
University of Regina
A deformation quantization of a manifold is a noncommutative deformation of its algebra of functions; the idea originated in physics, as a way of relating the classical and quantum descriptions of mechanical systems. At leading order in the...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Sheehan Olver
September 22, 2025
Simon Fraser University
In this talk we see how representation theory can be used in numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) and how numerics can give more efficient methods for computational problems in representation theory. In particular, we will see...
Scientific, Seminar
Joint Maud Menten /Math Bio Seminar: Chadi Saad-Roy
September 22, 2025
University of Alberta
Pathogens can cause long-term damage to their hosts, leading to potentially elevated mortality after recovery. While such ‘post-infection mortality’ may be widespread, its ecological and evolutionary dynamics remain largely unexplored. In this talk...
Scientific, Colloquia
UAlberta-PIMS Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium: Stefano De Marchi
September 19, 2025
University of Alberta
In this talk, we start by recalling the well-known problem of multivariate approximation by polynomials of total degree, concerning finding good points for interpolation. This allowed the discovery of the Padua Points, the first set of unisolvent and...