Past Events

We apply a general framework to analyze the influence of system load on service times in queueing systems to EMS systems. The framework unifies previous results and ties them to possible future studies to help empirical and analytical researchers to...

How does mathematical knowledge grow? According to an influential formulation due to philosopher Ernest Nagel, when a scientific theory "reduces" another, the reduced theory is deductively subsumed under the reducing theory: thus for example...

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The talk will first present some classical results on the automorphisms of complex projective curves (or alternatively, of compact Riemann surfaces). We will then discuss the automorphism groups of projective algebraic varieties of higher dimensions...

Many numerical invariants of a graph, such as the independence number, clique number and chromatic number, have game theoretic descriptions. In these games a referee poses questions to two collaborating non-communicating players and they return...

Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace in his 5 volume Traité de mécanique céleste unified mathematical physics by placing calculus front and center. Among Laplace's chief innovations, was an introduction of a differential equation that now bears his name...

There are many fundamental problems concerning sequences that arise in many areas of mathematics and computation. Typical problems include finding or avoiding patterns; testing or validating various `random-like’ behavior; analyzing or comparing...

The diversity of mathematics and roles of mathematicians in industry has expanded greatly over the last decade. The first part of this talk is a survey of work that I have done as an applied mathematician working in industry. Areas include modeling...

This talk discusses work of a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Kellogg Eye Institute at the University of Michigan to develop a forecasting tool that assists eye doctors by (a)...

Representations in Arithmetic: Interactive Broadcast with Prof. Kiran Kedlaya PIMS UBC will broadcast 3-4 lectures on Representations in Arithmetic- Adic spaces. • Feb 20th: 3:00pm PST • Feb 21st: 3:00pm PST • Feb 28th: TBC First broadcast: Feb 20th...