Past Events
Scientific, Seminar
UCalgary Algebra and Number Theory Seminar: Paul Péringuey
December 5, 2024
Online
Let ord p ( a ) be the order of a in ( Z / p Z ) ∗ . In 1927, Artin conjectured that the set of primes p for which an integer a ≠− 1 , ◻ is a primitive root (i.e. ord p ( a ) = p − 1 ) has a positive asymptotic density among all primes. In 1967...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry Seminar: Alex Cohen
December 4, 2024
University of British Columbia
Lots of problems in combinatorics and analysis are connected to upper bounds for incidences: given a set of points and tubes, how much can they intersect? This talk is about lower bounds for incidences, a topic that has received much less attention...
Scientific, Seminar
UW Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar: Changxin Ding
December 4, 2024
University of Washington
For a finite connected graph, the following objects have the same cardinality: the set of spanning trees, the Jacobian group, the set of equivalence classes of orientations up to cycle-cocycle reversal, the set of break divisors, the set of reduced...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Orion D. Weiner
December 4, 2024
University of British Columbia
Cell movement requires long-range coordination of the cytoskeletal machinery that organizes cell morphogenesis. We have found that reciprocal interactions between biochemical signals and physical forces enable this long-range signal integration...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Semin Yoo
December 3, 2024
University of British Columbia
q-analogues of quantities in mathematics involve perturbations of classical quantities using the parameter q, and revert to the original quantities when q goes 1. A notable example is the q-analogues of binomial coefficients, denoted by {n \choose k}...
Scientific, Seminar
UVictoria Probability and Dynamics Seminar: William Verreault
December 3, 2024
University of Victoria
Recent interactions between probability and number theory proved fruitful. In particular, random multiplicative functions (RMFs) are random models for partial sums of the Möbius function and Dirichlet characters, which are related to L-functions like...
Scientific, Summer School
3MC+PIMS+ICMS Winter school - Multiscale Modeling: Infectious Diseases, Cancer and Treatments
December 2–13, 2024
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)
Instructors: Julien Arino, University of Manitoba, Canada Stefania Lisai , University of St Andrews, United Kingdom Frank Ball, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom John MacKenzie, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Rachel Bearon, King’s...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Augusto Gerolin
November 29, 2024
University of British Columbia
Reduced density matrix theories offer a promising tool to circumvent the exponential scaling of the N-fermion Hilbert space with the system size and it is conceptually well-suited to describe strongly correlated many-particle systems, a central...
Scientific, Colloquia
UAlberta-PIMS Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium: Pei-Yong Wang
November 29, 2024
University of Alberta
This talk will cover the existence of a third solution through the Mountain Pass Lemma when the boundary data of the problem decreases below a threshold value. Meanwhile, an evolutionary perspective of the stability-instability of a solution of the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Tian An Wong
November 29, 2024
University of British Columbia
Within the Langlands program, the theory of endoscopy concerns the transfer of distributions between a reductive group G and G′, an endoscopic group of G. At the heart of Langlands' original study on Beyond Endoscopy is the notion of stable transfer...