Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Kyunghan Choi
January 20, 2025
University of Alberta
Highly evolved animals continuously update their knowledge of social factors, refining movement decisions based on both historical and real-time observations. Despite its significance, research on the underlying mechanisms remains limited. In this...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Statistics Seminar: Weng Kee Wong
January 20, 2025
University of Victoria
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is based on swarm intelligence and widely used in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Like many other nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms, it is already widely used to tackle all sorts of hard...
Scientific, Seminar
Lethbridge Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar: Greg Knapp
January 20, 2025
University of Lethbridge
Let $d>k$ be positive integers. Motivated by an earlier result of Bugeaud and Nguyen, we let $E_{k,d}$ be the set of $(c_1,\ldots,c_k)\in\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}^k$ such that $\vert\alpha_0\vert\vert\alpha_1\vert^{c_1}\cdots\vert\alpha_k\vert^{c_k}\geq 1$...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Yinon Spinka
January 17, 2025
University of British Columbia
In this talk we will explore the connection between the two seemingly unrelated concepts appearing in the title. Phase transitions occur when a system undergoes an abrupt change in behaviour as a consequence of a small change in parameters. While...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS-Lethbridge Distinguished Lecture: Micah Milinovich
January 17, 2025
University of Lethbridge
There is a beautiful connection between the prime numbers and the zeros of Riemann zeta- function in the complex plane, and understanding the distribution of these zeros can lead to remarkable consequences in our understanding of the primes. A famous...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Sebastian Cioaba
January 17, 2025
Online
It is known that non-isomorphic strongly regular graphs with the same parameters must be cospectral (have the same eigenvalues). We investigate whether the spectra of higher order Laplacians associated with these graphs can distinguish them. In this...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Yinon Spinka
January 16, 2025
University of British Columbia
A Lipschitz function on a graph G is a function f:V->Z from the vertex set of the graph to the integers which changes by at most 1 along any edge of the graph. Given a finite connected graph G, and fixing the value of the function to be 0 on at least...
Scientific, Colloquia
Prairie Mathematics Colloquium: Shonda Dueck
January 16, 2025
Online
We consider cyclic partitions of the complete k-uniform hypergraph on a finite set V , minus a set of s edges, s ≥ 0. An s-almost t-complementary k-hypergraph is a k-uniform hypergraph with vertex set V and edge set E for which there exists a...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Tian Wang
January 16, 2025
Simon Fraser University
Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve without complex multiplication. By Serre's open image theorem, the mod $\ell$ Galois representation $\overline{\rho}_{E, \ell}$ of $E$ is surjective for each prime number $\ell$ that is sufficiently large...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Hannah Friedman
January 15, 2025
University of Washington
The Grassmannian is studied very differently in pure and applied mathematics. From studying these two embeddings of the Grassmannian, a new variety called the squared Grassmannian arises naturally as the image of the Grassmannian in its Plücker...