Past Events

Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Ivan Corwin
October 16, 2015
University of Washington
In a simple symmetric random walk on Z a particle jumps left or right with 50% chance independently at each time and space location. What if the jump probabilities are taken to be random themselves (e.g. uniformly distributed between 0% and 100%)? In...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
IAM – PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Bernd Krauskopf
October 9, 2015
University of British Columbia
Aircraft are designed to fly but also need to operate efficiently and safely as vehicles on the ground. The tricycle configuration of commercial aircraft presents challenges for manoeuvres, such as high-speed turns off a runway. The talk will present...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
UW-PIMS Mathematics Colloquium: Amnon Yekutieli
October 2, 2015
University of Washington
Nonabelian multiplicative integration on curves is a classical theory, going back to Volterra in the 19th century. In differential geometry this operation can be interpreted as the holonomy of a connection along a curve. In probability theory this is...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
IAM – PIMS Distinguished Colloquium: Stas Shvartsman
September 28, 2015
University of British Columbia
I will present the results of our recent work on epithelial morphogenesis, a highly conserved set of processes that transform two-dimensional sheets of cells into complex three-dimensional structures. Such transformations play key roles during...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS - UAlberta Distinguished Visitor: Cliff Frohlich
September 10, 2015
University of Alberta
Dr Frohlich is Associate Director of the Institute for Geophysics and Senior Research Scientist in the Jackson School of Geosciences. Following his talk there will be an open panel discussion. Confirmed panelists will include Mirko van der Baan and...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS Regina Distinguished Lecture: Alexandru Suciu
August 14, 2015
University of Regina
Much of the fascination with arrangements of complex hyperplanes comes from the rich interplay between the combinatorics of the intersection lattice and the algebraic topology of the complement. A key bridge between the two is provided by the...