Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Information Theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Predicting Jupiter's Red Spot
February 12, 2008
University of Victoria
Information Theory, Statistical Mechanics, and Predicting Jupiter's Red Spot. Feb 12, 2008 3:00pm-4:00pm, CORNETT B111 Galileo Journey to Jupiter This lecture blends ideas from probability theory, PDE’s, numerical analysis and physical reasoning in...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
10th Anniversary Speaker Series 2007
April 9, 2007
University of Washington
The peculiar quantum-mechanical properties of the ground states of Bose gases that were predicted in the early days of quantum-mechanics have been verified experimentally relatively recently. The mathematical derivation of these properties from...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Subgaussian processes are well-balanced
February 16, 2007
University of Alberta
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Descriptive Complexity
February 8, 2007
Neil Immerman is one of the key developers of 'descriptive complexity', which he is currently applying to research in model checking, database theory, and computational complexity theory. Immerman is the winner, jointly with Róbert Szelepcsényi, of...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Distribution of volume on isotropic convex bodies
November 16, 2006
PIMS Distinguished Chair Lectures 2006